RTS Questionnaire · Question 40 of 52 · file: answers/q40.html
Have you been involved in translating business requirements into technical implementation?
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✅ Yes — that translation is a constant part of my role, from requirement workshops to production code.
Technical detail
- 🗣️ Elicitation and clarification — working directly with business stakeholders, product owners and functional leads to capture goals, rules and exceptions; asking the questions that expose ambiguity (edge cases, volumes, SLAs, legal/audit constraints) before design begins.
- 📐 Modelling — converting narrative rules into domain models (entities, aggregates, invariants), state machines for complex workflows, decision/rule tables, and acceptance criteria expressed as testable scenarios (Given/When/Then) that QA and developers share.
- 🧭 Technical translation — mapping requirements to architecture: which bounded context owns the rule, synchronous vs. asynchronous interaction, data model changes, API contracts, non-functional requirements (performance, availability, security), and effort estimation with explicit assumptions.
- 📄 Traceability and documentation — user stories with acceptance criteria linked to designs, diagrams and pull requests; ADRs recording why an approach was chosen; and demonstrations of working software to confirm the interpretation is correct — early, when change is still cheap.
💬 Real examples include translating Colombian public-procurement transparency rules into analytical data products, risk-platform customisation for a bank, and complex client-verification business rules into an integration service consuming many external data sources.
🧾 CV evidence: CV: business modelling competency listed in Architectural competencies; founder/director role translating Law 80/1712 transparency requirements into software; banking risk-platform customisation; 2025 assessments documenting requirements-to-implementation lifecycle (points 0-7 deliverables).