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Getting Systems Analysis Right Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry

SystemsAnalysisFrameworkAndAgenda

Session Objective (revised 9-11): to allow you to experience good and bad capture of requirements in the form of models and to begin to understand what it takes to build models that help you form meaningful questions for exploration when you talk to your customers.

Description (revised 9-11): Have you ever been mired in the swamp of Weak Requirements? Ever been bitten by the monster of Wrong Requirements? When you've tuned your antennae to how to use bad requirements to find better requirements, defining systems gets easier. The project finally moves forward and it feels great. Come prepared to participate and discover what makes requirements usable and even loveable. We'll explore the difference between analysis and design, and we'll simulate a system that illustrates the analyst's challenge, process, tools and lessons.

This session will focus on how documenting information in a model can help you assess what you know and don't know. Sometimes this suggests factual difference, sometimes a deeper problem exists. Understanding how models integrate with your standard requirements process gives an early alert to where your problems might lie.