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Testers would work with BAs to ensure that all the scenarios were covered, developers would write to meet those scenarios and the BA would walkthrough the application to ensure that all of their requirements were met before signoff (completion of the storycards). It could have just been an off-day, but it worries me when business people come to the development team to see what the business rules should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been part of a production support team lately and an issue that was raised this week had me concerned about some of the state we seemed to be operating in. 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