One of the most devastating things a Business Analyst can experience is missing business requirements. If you are working on a mission critical project and you have missing requirements – especially if you realize late in the project – it can really be a bad experience. You can end up feeling very responsible if the project is unsuccessful because you did not identify the right requirements. For these reasons you want to make every effort to avoid missing requirements.
How to avoid missing requirements
The best way to avoid missing critical requirements is to ask relevant questions early. Watch this video where I talk about how to mitigate your risk as a Business Analyst of writing requirements documents or user stories and find out that you have missed some requirements.
You can also click through the presentation below to get the questions you should ask to avoid the mistake of documenting requirements without realizing that there are some missing.
Missing Requirements by Karaleise
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