Chapter 21. Business Requirements and Business Rules

As Chapter 1, pointed out, the terminology used when discussing software requirements is the source of much confusion. A frequent perplexity is the difference between a business requirement and a business rule. This chapter describes how I distinguish between these two classes of essential requirements information.

Business Requirements

A business requirement states a high-level business objective of the organization that builds a product or an objective of the customer who procures it. Business requirements describe how the world will be better for certain communities of people if this new product is available. ...

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