How to Analyze Sets of Business Requirements

Understanding the business requirements in the manner in which they were intended can be a very challenging proposition. If the requirements are going to do their job well, they need to be understood by several target audiences, namely the business community, the technical community, and the developer/tester community. Each of these groups needs to be able to read the business requirements and extract what they need out of them to be able to contribute to the end product.

This online business analysis training workshop presents several requirement analysis techniques that business analysts and subject matter experts can use to identify requirements and phrases that might be misunderstood by the various target audiences. It assumes that you know how to write effective, measurable business requirements (or that you are going to analyze other people’s requirements. These techniques will help reduce the number of incorrect and misunderstood business requirements.

Note: This instructor-led course delivered in two virtual sessions via the Internet covers the same content as the third day of our 3-day course, “How to Elicit (Gather), Write, and Analyze Business Requirements” which can be delivered live at your site.

1. Analyzing Business Requirements

Clarifying Business Requirements

Exercise: Grouping Requirements

Combining Requirements

Detailed Clarification

Rules for “Effective” Sets of Requirements

Identifying Inconsistent Requirements

Exercise: Identifying Inconsistent Requirements

Rules for “Effective” Sets of Requirements

Of Rules and Requirements

Business Rules Are

Rules vs. Requirements

Rules Relationships

The Rules Challenge

Exercise: Testing Rules

Identifying Business Components

Exercise: Components of a Business System

Business Information Systems

2. Decomposing Requirements

Decomposing Requirements

Components of Requirements

Exercise: Requirements Types

Requirement Subtypes vs the 10 Critical Questions

Testing Requirement Components

Finding Functional Requirements

Testing Functional Components

Exercise: Testing the Functional Components

Finding Rules and Constraining Requirements

Testing Rule and Constraint Components

Exercise: Testing Rule and Constraint Components

Finding Performance Requirements

Exercise: Resolving Subjective Components

Exercise: Decomposing a Requirement

Purpose of Requirements Decomposition

3. Verifying Business Requirements

Confirming Business Requirements

Rules for “Effective” Sets of Requirements

Confirming Feasibilities

Identifying High Risk Requirements

PASS = Project Audit Support Services

Exercise: Verifying Requirements Completeness

4. Requirements Prioritization

Requirements Prioritization

Rules for “Effective” Sets of Requirements

Need-based Requirements Prioritization

Release-based Requirements Prioritization

5. Requirement Tools and Templates

Requirements Tools and Templates

Requirement Documentation Template(s)

Tools Discussion

The Payback

• Apply the four rules for managing a group of requirements
• Classify 7 major components of business systems that need analysis
• Decompose requirements into the major types of requirements and their subtypes
• Further clarify business rules, performance and constraining requirements
• Use a standard readability index to improve understanding
• Choose risk reduction alternatives for high-risk requirements
• Evaluate the completeness of requirements
• Categorize requirements based on focus
• Create a requirement/problem matrix to confirm requirements completeness
• Confirm (determine relative importance and feasibility) of requirements
• Prioritize requirements based on business and system needs
• Use templates to guide writing requirements

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