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Six Stages in the Evolution of a Business Requirement - Click To Read Article
Business requirements exist in the wilds of organizations around the world. We do not really know whether business requirements exist at all until we capture them. To ensure the safety of the business community and the developer community, the job of the business analyst is to tame these requirements. To be tamed, the requirements has to evolve through the phases of sentenced, whatified, scoped, clarified, quantified, and confirmed.

Dowsing for Requirements
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Dowsing is a method for "devining" where water might be before you drill. Given the challenges of getting good business requirements from the business community, it might be time to try to apply this fringe technique to the process of business analysis.


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Tom Hathaway
(Visit Tom's Website) Mr. Hathaway has over 30 years experience as a practitioner and instructor in business information systems. He has successfully facilitated over 300 accelerated JAD (Joint Application Development) sessions dealing with mainframe, client/server and web-based applications in the US, Canada and Europe. In the early 1990’s, Tom pioneered the use of interactive CASE technology in JAD sessions (iJAD) to create in-session documentation of business requirements (InstaDoc™). As an instructor, he has developed and presented hundreds of seminars to thousands of participants on Business System Analysis, SDLC, Testing, and JAD Facilitation. Tom co-founded and co-manages the Requirements Solutions Group, a Tampa-based organization that provides training and consulting in business analysis and requirements definition. Throughout his career, Tom's major focus has been developing, using and teaching tools and techniques for increasing the quality and accelerating the delivery of information technology solutions that meet the needs of the business community. His talent for analyzing and synthesizing has resulted in original contributions to the industry’s body of knowledge.

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