Dennis DavisConsultant| Davis ConsultingAntioch, Ca, United States
OK, first let me apologize up front if this topic has been beaten to death in other discussions but I haven't come across the exact solution to my problem. In a nutshell, I'm helping to institute a new SDLC model for company complete w/ templates, processes, etc. I'm jumping into the middle of the project and evaluating the usefulness of some of the templates and how to modify them to be more useful. In particular, the templates for the company's BA include: 1) business requirements and 2) functional spec.(one version for use cases and one version w/out use cases). Now, my question is twofold:
1. Shouldn't the use cases in the truest sense, be part of the bus. reqs template since its a method of gathering functional reqs?
2. If I do re-buld the bus req template to incorporate use cases, is there a real need for a functional spec?
I hope my questions are clear enough to elicit some good responses. I've worked on projects that have used everything from use cases to SRSs to functional and/or tech requirements docs but this is the first time that I have had to truly consider what is the purpose for some of these docs. Thanx for the responses. Saving Changes...
