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I once did weeks of work trying to unpack what my employer meant by the term "customer" - if your customers are large companies with hundreds of legal entities
by arethuza 6y ago
I once did weeks of work trying to unpack what my employer meant by the term "customer" - if your customers are large companies with hundreds of legal entities and hundreds of locations across the world things can get pretty complex pretty fast e.g. does "never two contracts running at the same time" mean that you can't have a contract with a subsidiary and another separate subsidiary of the same parent (which might make sense for credit checking purposes)? What about subsidiaries in different countries? What about partly owned subsidiaries...
- ovi256 6y agoA method that works well for this kind of analysis in my experience is to start by looking at the data, together with a business person and then ask the needed question until you can model it. "Oh so I see we have customers that are sites of large corporations, so that is a requirement" "Oh and these rows look like subsidiaries" etc