Chapter 1 - Khushwinder Singh

Truth 9 (There is no silver bullet. All our methods and tools will not compensate for poor thought and poor workmanship)

This truth says that the business analyst is supposed to think, analyze and make assumption regarding any work he is asked to do. Basically, he is supposed to work in orderly process, but this doesn’t mean that he will not think about the work. Smart people take advantages of processes more than the people who don’t think. In requirement processes, most of the time the Business Analyst is required to analyze the various requirements and think about the output which they would give in future.

Truth 10 (Requirements, if they are to be implemented successfully, must be measurable and testable.)

This truth says that we should be precise about the requirements. We humans are not always very accurate regarding the fact of requirements. We should be measuring the requirements using numbers instead of words to ensure necessary level of precession and make these requirements testable.

If we don’t have measurement for any requirement, this doesn’t mean that it is not a requirement, it means only an idle thought. 

Published by: Khushwinder Singh Sandhu (0322078)
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