Organizational Development Consulting

Requirements Elicitation Best Practice

Requirements Elicitation methods help avoid subjective, ambiguous and incomplete requirements, by providing standardized approaches. To create “good” requirements, you need to become proficient in the “language and techniques” of requirements definition. This model needs to be embedded into the core BA process of the organization and supported with skills development.  Our team will provide templates and process covering how to write effective business requirements and where to integrate business analysis techniques. The BA Function within the organization starts with the requirements and ensuring there is a foundational best practice established will create value throughout the rest of the development cycle.

Requirements Elicitation Implementation Considerations

In order to create a stable and productive front-end presence for the “voice of the customer” and all related early project stage functions, the tools and templates must be leveraged in early and utilized in the same way a scalable lifecycle is applied.  Our best practices will generate a visible set of expectations for use in the areas of:

  • Writing Business Requirements
  • 10 critical requirements questions
  • Translate business needs into well-structured business requirement statements
  • Four rules for managing a group of requirements
  • Prioritize requirements based on business and system needs
  • 5 improvement methods based on business process models
  • Business process models
  • Model the AS IS business process
  • Document the details of each process using the most appropriate technique
  • Document existing business processes

Why Requirements Elicitation Is Important for Project Sucess

Establishing visible and repeatable requirements collection process and skills is the cornerstone of a quality focused center of excellence.  The process and best practice noted above can be designed and integrated based on your organization’s needs, current gap areas and planned scale of the project portfolio.

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