Documenting and Managing Requirements
This is a detailed how-to guide to ensuring your requirements are fully captured. It is a useful guidebook with processes you will tweak and adapt to each project plan. Is anything surprising or new to you? You will not use all of these approaches for every project, but having them at hand is useful when planning your next project.
Application of material provided in this Section:
The scope of analysis work may include BA participation for the entire performance of a project or be limited to only a piece of the total project work. Documenting and managing requirements provides a framework to accomplish the necessary activities throughout the project lifecycle. The benefits of documenting requirements in an organized fashion include the ability to perform such tasks as impact analysis for changes, providing complete scope information for creating user guidance, determining quality assurance tests to validate the business goals, and support for an organized approach to managing project team communications. Investing the effort to capture requirements at the time project requirements are being defined pays off even for future development projects involving the project deliverables.