Business Analysis Overview
Only recently has business analysis been recognized as a profession. The role and Impacts of business analyst competencies to project success are discussed.
Business Analysis Profession
The Business Case for Requirements Engineering
Foundations of Requirements Development
Gathering Business, User and Solution Requirements
Discover ways to get to detailed requirements and using the right tool and technique. Understand the importance of listening and asking the right questions. The most important question we can ask at the beginning of every project is: “What is the problem we are trying to solve?” - keeping us from jumping into solutions.
Stakeholder Identification
Defining and Validating Product Scope
Interview Best Practices
Using Use Cases for Elicitation
Identifying Data and Quality Attributes
Analyzing Requirements with Business Modeling
Documenting and Validating with Use Cases
Use Cases shift the perspective of requirements development to discussing what the USERS need to accomplish
Identifying and Recognizing When to Use
Types of Uses Cases
Use Case Structures
Linking Use Cases
Organizing and Documenting Requirements
The Software Requirements Specification (SRS) is a place to capture refined requirements for final approval
A sample SRS is reviewed and discussed
Refining Requirement Quality
Ways to Classify
Organization Based on Reviewer Needs
Documentation Requirements and Standards
Tracing and Managing Requirement Changes
Once the requirements have been refined and documented, the next step is to present them to the stakeholders
The Baseline
Documenting Trace Relationships
Benefits and Risks of Tracing
Ongoing Communications