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User Views - Exercise
Requirements analysis and user views
Objective:
List views that would be useful to Stories on CD employees.
Exercise Scoring
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Background/overview
Now that you have designed and normalized the tables that Stories on CD will use to track its inventory and orders placed with distributors, it is time to determine what type of information Stories on CD employees should be able to derive from the table data.
Instructions
In the text box provided below, list five questions that Stories on CD employees might want to ask of the data in their tables.
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