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Week 8 Discussion question 2

Week 8 Discussion Question 2

Q Please refer to Chapter 9's Closing Case 2 (Reducing Ambiguity in Business Requirements, pg. 401) and answer any ONE of the questions below in your initial thread before Wednesday. Then, before the end of Sunday, make the remaining THREE response posts (interact with at least TWO different classmates by either asking probing question(s), agreeing with their answers, or offering alternative points of view). Either way, your replies must be substantive and through-provoking to earn full credit for your participation. Questions: 1. Why are ambiguous business requirements the leading cause of system development failures? 2. Why do the words and or tend to lead to ambiguous requirements? 3. Research the web and determine other reasons for bad business requirements. 4. What is wrong with the following business requirement: "The system must support employee birthdays because every employee always has a birthday every year"?

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This week’s discussion question 2 is on closing case 2 that is to reduce the ambiguity in the business requirement. The question that I have chosen is to determine other reasons for the bad business requirement (Boucher, 2016). The first reason for the bad business requirement where the requirement is not well defined (Boucher, 2016). The confusion is that the company needs something and the requirement does not have the guarantee whether the requirement will not be met and also increase the chance of the product failure (Boucher, 2016).