The Business Analyst path
From what the role is accountable for, through writing criteria a team can test, to elaborating and decomposing real requirements in ReqLens.
The order below is a suggestion, not a sequence you have to follow. Start wherever is useful to you.
- What a Business Analyst actually does
The Business Analyst turns intent into requirements a team can build and test. The real shape of the role, what it produces, and where it goes wrong.
Start with what the role actually owns, which is narrower than most descriptions suggest.
Foundation5 min read - Acceptance criteria examples and template
Acceptance criteria examples for login, payments and refunds: weak versus testable criteria, failure, boundary and permission cases, and a reusable template.
The highest-leverage skill in the role. Everything downstream compounds from it.
Practitioner11 min read - How to decompose an epic into user stories
How to break down an epic into user stories that ship alone: the cuts that fail, story splitting examples, and how to turn a PRD into features and stories.
Where incremental delivery is won or lost.
Practitioner6 min read - Requirement Studio: rough to testable
How elaboration works in ReqLens: what it adds to a raw requirement, why every change needs approval, and how edits propagate to everything downstream.
How elaboration surfaces coverage gaps and the decisions you would otherwise leave unmade.
Practitioner4 min read - Breaking a requirement into features
How ReqLens finds feature boundaries in a large requirement, why boundary detection and enrichment are separate steps, and what that separation protects.
Practitioner4 min read - Use case template and alternate flows
A use case template, a refund example with alternate and exception flows traced to criteria and tests, use case vs user story, and how ReqLens generates them.
Practitioner6 min read - Choosing a requirements management tool
How to choose a requirements management tool: a practical checklist, demo questions, a worked refund example, and a free printable evaluation sheet.
Choosing a requirements tool: a fair checklist, demo questions and a printable evaluation sheet.
Practitioner9 min read