Due to our combined business and technology skills we are often asked to help define business and functional requirements and translate them into a software specification that programmers can work from.

This will involve working closely with key business users and clarifying exactly what is required and how it is to function.

Once the business requirements have been agreed and approved the software design process is started.

The design process involves the creation of detailed use cases that define precisely how functions, actors and data are to interact within the system.

A key aspect is the parallel development of a test plan with detailed test cases comprising worked examples and expected results.