Business Requirement Analysis Methods
for Business Analysts and Testers

This nugget (Rule 5) presents techniques for improving the measurability of a requirement statement (whether you wrote the original or not) which increases the probability that the developers will understand – and deliver – what you ask for. A powerful by-product of this rule is that when you ask how will you measure or know that a requirement has been achieved, it reveals additional information about the requirement.

Learning Objectives
Rules for a “Good” Requirement Sentence
Why You Need Measurable Requirements
Business Requirements are Complex
Effective Requirements Are Specific
Evaluating Functional Requirements
Finding the Functional Elements
Exercise: Finding Functions
Documenting Functional Elements
Performance Requirements Defined
Evaluating Performance Requirements
Common Qualitative Performance Requirements
Exercise: Quantitative versus Qualitative Performance Requirements
Finding Performance Requirements
Translating Performance into Functional Requirements
Exercise: Discovering Performance-related Functions
Evaluating Informational Requirements
Finding Informational Elements
Documenting Informational Elements
Managing Informational Elements
Exercise: Finding Informational Requirements
Defining the Accuracy of Informational Elements
Exercise: Establshing Application-based Accuracy
Evaluating Constraining Requirements
Finding Constraining Requirements
Exercise: Finding Constraining Requirements
Summary: Rules for Effective Requirement
Exercie: Final Exam
Rules for Effective Business Requirements
Where To From Here?

Identify and define functional and informational elements.
Improve the measurability of its functional and informational content.
Differentiate between quantitative and qualitative measures.
Revise subjective qualities to increase their measurability.
Extract business rules and external constraints from the business requirements.

90+ minutes

Testers
Software QA
Business System Analysts
Subject Matter Experts
System Analysts
User liaison personnel
Anyone who would like to understand their customer’s needs