Requirements management
Gathering business requirements in a structured way to ensure IT understands them and build the system functionality required.
What we find:
- the business cannot always be completely clear as to their need, especially with respect to reporting
- requirements are often captured without the business rationale behind them
- requirements that are not to be implemented are often lost and rarely managed
- need for increasing levels of clarity as development goes offshore
Our approach:
- cross functionally capture requirements, where possible
- adapt techniques to suit the client environment and individual projects
- work closely with the business on joint application development, where appropriate
- use a structured approach to ensure completeness
- use a requirements store to manage de-prioritised and future requirements
Benefits delivered:
- business engagement and requirement ownership
- clear reasons for each requirement captured - this is often needed for future reference
- a managed store of future requirements providing an audit trail and supporting business engagement
- flexible techniques (e.g. prototyping) help the business clarify their needs
Recent Successes
managed the full requirements capture for the development of a new multimillion pound organisation, including extensive offshore development
worked with a central government client to capture, develop and build a bespoke solution to address their strategic need
used joint application development to accelerate the delivery of a Basel II data warehousing solution for a UK financial services institution
