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by Stewart Mednick President Emeritus IIBA Minneapolis St Paul Chapter Functional Decomposition Feature User Story Acceptance Criteria Process Flow User Story User Story Acceptance Criteria ID: 776018

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The Requirement Continuum

Stewart

Mednick

President Emeritus

IIBA Minneapolis St. Paul Chapter

Slide3

Functional Decomposition

Feature

User Story

Acceptance Criteria

Process Flow

User Story

Acceptance Criteria

Requirement Continuum

An iterative requirement lifecycle

Slide4

The Hedgehog Concept

Are you a

hedgehog

or a

fox

In his famous essay “The Hedgehog and the Fox,”

Isaiah Berlin

divided the world into hedgehogs and foxes, based upon an ancient Greek parable:

“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”

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The Hedgehog Concept is developed in the Jim Collins’ book “Good to Great.” A simple, crystalline concept that flows from deep understanding about the intersection of three circles:

what you are deeply passionate about,

what you can be the best in the world at, and

what best drives your economic or resource engine.

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Transformations from good to great come about by a series of good decisions made consistently; supremely well executed, accumulating one upon another over a long period of time.

with a Hedgehog

Concept:

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Collins defines the Hedgehog Concept as such:

“All good-to-great leaders, it turns out, are hedgehogs.

They know how to simplify a complex world into a single, organizing idea — the kind of basic principle that unifies, organizes, and guides all decisions….

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Collins defines the Hedgehog Concept as such:

…That’s

not to say hedgehogs are simplistic. Like great thinkers, who take complexities and boil them down into

simple, yet

profound

ideas

(Adam Smith and the invisible hand, Darwin and evolution), leaders of (in) good-to-great companies develop a Hedgehog Concept that is simple but that reflects penetrating insight and deep understanding.”

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What you can be the best in the world at: Product Development (Macro Level)

What are you deeply passionate about:

BA Education and

Knowledge

What drives your economic engine:

Process Rigor

BA Hedgehog

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What are you deeply passionate about:

BA Education and knowledge

What drives your economic engine:

Process Rigor

What you can be

the best in the world at: Requirement Development (Micro Level)

BA Hedgehog

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BA Education, Knowledge and execution

Process Development, Rigor and execution

Product

Development, testing and implementation

Good Process

Good Product

Repeatability

Success

BA Hedgehog

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BA Education, Knowledge and execution

Process Development, Rigor and execution

Requirement

Development, testing and implementation

Good Process

Good Product

Repeatability

Success

BA Hedgehog

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Transformations from good to great come about by a series of good decisions made consistently with a Hedgehog Concept, supremely well executed, accumulating one upon another, over a long period of time.

The

Requirement Continuum

is a tool to be used to help execute supremely well.

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Syllogism:

To make good decisions, good (relevant) questions need to be asked. To determine what questions are relevant, the purpose of why a question needs to be asked is known. The reason a purpose exists, is because a business need has to be fulfilled. What is that business need?

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Functional Decomposition

Feature

User Story

Acceptance Criteria

Process Flow

User Story

Acceptance Criteria

Requirement Continuum

An iterative requirement lifecycle

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Insert Solution ArchitectInsert System AnalystInsert Implementation TeamInsert Waterfall jargon

Functional Decomposition

Feature

User Story

Acceptance Criteria

Process Flow

User Story

Acceptance Criteria

Requirement Continuum

An iterative requirement lifecycle

Slide17

Insert Solution ArchitectInsert System AnalystInsert Implementation TeamInsert Waterfall jargon

Functional Decomposition

Feature

User Story

Acceptance Criteria

Process Flow

User Story

Acceptance Criteria

Will define the feature on the lowest level of the Functional Decomposition; business domain

Requirement Continuum

An iterative requirement lifecycle

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Functional Decomposition

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Insert Solution ArchitectInsert System AnalystInsert Implementation TeamInsert Waterfall jargon

Functional Decomposition

Feature

User Story

Acceptance Criteria

Process Flow

User Story

Acceptance Criteria

Functional Review or Exploratory Testing to find errors or impact issues

Requirement Continuum

An iterative requirement lifecycle

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Insert Solution ArchitectInsert System AnalystInsert Implementation TeamInsert Waterfall jargon

Functional Decomposition

Feature

User Story

Acceptance Criteria

Process Flow

User Story

Acceptance Criteria

Delivery Team Develops the process; QA validates (verify process) and tests.

Requirement Continuum

An iterative requirement lifecycle

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Insert Solution ArchitectInsert System AnalystInsert Implementation TeamInsert Waterfall jargon

Functional Decomposition

Feature

User Story

Acceptance Criteria

Process Flow

User Story

Acceptance Criteria

Check and balance for structural design; traceability

Requirement Continuum

An iterative requirement lifecycle

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Insert Solution ArchitectInsert System AnalystInsert Implementation TeamInsert Waterfall jargon

Functional Decomposition

Feature

User Story

Acceptance Criteria

Process Flow

User Story

Acceptance Criteria

Check and balance for structural design; traceability

Delivery Team Develops the process; QA validates (verify process) and tests.

Will define the feature on the lowest level of the Functional Decomposition; business domain

Functional Review or Exploratory Testing to find errors or impact issues

Requirement Continuum

An iterative requirement lifecycle

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The Requirement Continuum will present a Requirement Development Life Cycle that can be used in an Agile or Waterfall environment.Starting initially with a Functional Decomposition of the system (or capability) being analyzed or developed, taking the decomposition to the Feature level.These features will then be further developed by user stories that will provide acceptance criteria for the guardrails of what is considered complete and successful.

Requirement Continuum Key Points:

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QA will validate and test the process in a prototype environment, and when validated, the delivery team can develop.The development time frame represents the end of sprint. Each sprint is defined by the user stories developed. Now more features can be created, more user stories will define the features, and the cycle continues until the project is complete; Thus, a requirement continuum.Implementing this process will provide consistency every time a requirement set is needed to be created.

Requirement Continuum Key Points:

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Business Analysis is not absolute. There are no laws or legal precedence for what is considered proper business analysis. There is only a ‘suggested’ guideline; the BABOK. This is shaped and molded by the minds that contributed to its development. However, we can influence as well by creating a

transcendent idea

that frames a

meaningful design

, and establishes a

compelling force in Business Analysis

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The End

Questions?

Or:

Comments, Philosophical observations,

Theoretical perspectives, Contentious objections,

thought provoking contributions,