Your unique responsibility as a BA is to write and communicate excellent requirements. Requirement consumers depend on the requirements in order to effectively design and construct solution components. Excellent requirements leave no room for interpretation, create or cause for confusion and omit no critical detail. They ensure that the consumer of the requirement can understand what is being requested. Among the many uses for excellent requirements, they especially matter for business process flow charts (and here is The Unofficial Guide to Process Flow Chart Symbols.)

This checklist is an MS Word form document that can be printed or used electronically to ensure your requirements are excellent and possess these 10 characteristics.