Succeeding with Requirements: A Business Analysis Drama in Three Acts, Part 1

Karl Wiegers
Analyst’s corner
Published in
8 min readJan 17, 2022

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A photo of the cast from a play standing on the stage.
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This is a true story about how several business analysts (BAs) and user representatives approached requirements exploration on a real, medium-sized corporate information system. The company and the people are real, although their names (except my own) have been changed. All other details describe exactly what happened.

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Karl Wiegers
Analyst’s corner

Author of 14 books, mostly on software. PhD in organic chemistry. Guitars, wine, and military history fill the voids. karlwiegers.com and processimpact.com