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8 Steps

to requirements success

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Introduction

The way you elicit and manage your

requirements gives them their credibility

Base your approach on your risks and context

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The Steps

Management

Context

Stakeholders

Discovery

Specification

Validation

Verification

Benefits

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Step 1 - Requirements Management

As simple as possible

But no simpler

Identifiers – Version control - Baselines

Establish an approach

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Step 2 – Establish Context

Requirements in Context

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Step 2 – Establish Context (more)

Understand the problem, …

before you create a “solution”

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Hands-on Users Product

Work Domain

Client Managers and Supervisors

Interfacing Product(s)

(Stakeholders?)

Interfacing work areas (Stakeholders?)

Regulatory bodies Standards bodies Subject Matter Experts

Beneficiaries Training

Sponsors

Project managers

Product managers

Governance bodies

Product owner

Customers Suppliers

Hands on Users

Security Maintenance Operators Help Desk

Development Team

Expert Users

Product Champion

Legal

Negative Stakeholders

Step 3 – Stakeholders

Application Supplier Management

Identify

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Step 3 - Stakeholders (more) S

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old

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Po

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Hig

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Watch

Keep satisfied

Active

management

Som

e

Keep onside

None ‘Ignore’

Keep informed

None Some High

Stakeholder Interest

Manage

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Business rules

Process models

Data models

Goal models

Scribe

Facilitator

Projector,

screen and

whiteboard

Stationery,

Refreshments

Flip charts

Stakeholders

Step 4 – Requirements Discovery

Elicit, analyse, prioritise

Facilitated Workshop Context

Subject matter experts

Requirements team

Developers

Testers

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Business Analyst + Product Owner + Project Manager

Developer / Designer / Architect / Tester

Can we build from requirements?

Are requirements testable?

Step 4 – Requirements Discovery (more)

Can we deliver a system from these requirements?

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Will it make the boat go faster ?

For each requirement, ask … Will we need it?

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Read

the

book

Recommendation …

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Start simply

Evolve product

Reduce risks Learn from experience

Deliver value

Step 4 – Requirements Discovery (more) Minimum Viable Product

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Step 5 - Select An Approach To Specification

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Step 5 - Select An Approach To Specification (more)

Understand the business

and the stakeholders

Understand strategic value and associated

risks of product

Keep specification approach as lightweight as possible

Select the approach

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Step 6 – Requirements Validation Is the customer happy?

Are we building the right system?

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Step 7 – Requirements Verification

Acceptance testing

Prove to this guy that it

won’t break.

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• Test planning and design Testing starts at project outset

• Static testing Involve testers in peer reviews

Requirements Discovery

Acceptance Testing

Acceptance Criteria?

Testing

Step 7 – Requirements Verification (more) Have we built the system right?

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Step 8 – Benefits Realisation Did we deliver value?

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