Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Best Practices

Bridging the Gap Between Business Need and Technology Solution

In grammar school, most of us learned how to solve mathematical story problems. The hardest part in solving a story problem is learning to isolate the key information needed to create a mathematical expression and ignore the extraneous information. A similar process holds true for defining business requirements. In grammar school, you understood the story problem properly if your answer matched the teacher’s answer. Unfortunately, when dealing with business requirements’ story problems, most technical teams forget to validate their understanding of the problem before they begin creating a solution. Appropriately enough, the process used to make sure the technical stakeholder’s translation ...