Packaging and Presenting Requirements

Setting the Stage for Success

• 25+ year of business analysis

• Industries include :– Financial– Academic– Government– Retail

• CBAP® obtained May ’07

• Requirements Evangelist

Billie Johnson, CBAP®, CSM

Billie in Norway

Agenda

• Introduction to Requirements Management and Communication

• Requirements Depiction• Packaging the Requirements• Reaching and Maintaining Consensus• Questions

Requirements Management and Communication Knowledge Area

Manage Solution Scope

& Requirements

Manage Requirements

Traceability

Maintain Requirements

for Reuse

Prepare Requirements

Package

Communicate Requirements

Understanding the Vision

“Vision without execution is a daydream

Execution without vision is a nightmare”

Japanese Proverb

Why Vision?We have a Funded Project

Alignment to Vision

“Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.” -- Roger C. Schank, author, cognitive scientist

Requirement Depiction

Setting Scope

Use Case DiagramActivity DiagramClass ModelState Diagram

User Goal Use Case

Interface Control 

Document

Business Rules

Business Model

Concept of Operations

GUI Specifications

Quality Attributes

Summary  Use Case

Technical Design Documents

Test Plan and Cases

Legend:•All shapes represent documentation modules•Directional Flow indicates module traceability•Solution and User Requirements represented in blue

Glossary

830™ Requirements Specification

TediousError‐proneTime‐consumingBoring to readDifficult to grasp the “big picture”

“The system shall…”

“If possible, the system will…”

“If we have time (money, people), 

we’ll try to…”

Configure for Packaging

Packaging Requirements

• Extract views as needed from requirements repository

• Avoid maintaining multiple copies• Package with audience needs in mind

Reaching and Maintaining Consensus

• Keep the content focused• Build team of reviewers with impact to the

specific content• After consensus, baseline requirements

content• Follow requirements management plan for

the changes that will occur

Questions

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