Requirements
Terms
- Role of business analyst
- To be the communicator between the stakeholders and the technical team
- Role of business analyst during analysis phase
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help provide information on decision making
- Role of business analyst after analysis phase
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Just support the project until user acceptance testing
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E-S-D-V
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Elicit structure document validate
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What is a requierment
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a conditio, functionality, or capability of a product or service
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Type of requirements
6
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Regulatory
Business
User
Functional
Non-functional
informational
- the 3 Cs
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Cost
Customer
Compliance
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Elicit phase
3
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interview
research
get as much info
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structure
1
- organize info from elicitation
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document
1
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create formal deliverable
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validate
1
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go back to sources of info and check if you are accurate
- Functional requirement
- behavior of the system, what the system does
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non-functional requirement
- characteristics of the system, what the system is
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informational requirements
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what does the system need to know, store, and process
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BA deliverables
3
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BRD
Vision scope report
requirements workplan
- BRD
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Business requirement document
Main outcome of business analysis
provides in sight into As IS and to be states of the business area
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Vision and scope report purpose
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clearly establishes boundaries for the project
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requirements work plan
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mini project plan that focuses soley on the resource, timing and activities that will be undertaken during the analysis phase of the project
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Vision statement has
2
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Overall objective
Goals
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Scope has
1
- features that will be included and excluded
- quality
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does it meet expectations
- grade
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measure of the richness of features
- excellence
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highest possible level of quality tgat can be achived within the constraints of the project
- perfection
- no defects
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business rules apply when?
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applies if there is a system or not
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requirements apply when?
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applies directly to the system
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business interaction model
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b to b
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work flow model
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sequence of activities
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goal model
- high, mid, low level goals
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process model
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key activities of the business
- organization model
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organizational chart
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location model
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describes the business on location
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event model
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organizations act around key events
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system model
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current systems that help / automate the business
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requirement work plan purpose
2
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help negotiate more time and money
also used as a check list
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requirement work plan sections
5
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work breakdown structure
resources
deliverables
user profiles
ricks
- diagnostic modeling
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identifies the actual problem more than one cause may be names
- diagnostic modeling provides
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prevents assumptions about soultion
structures descusstions
- Question types
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Open ended
closed
clarifying
confirming
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open ended
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long answer
what why how and tell me
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closed
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short answer
which, who, where, and when
- clarifying
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examples, definitions, and exceptions
give me an example of
- confirming
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restate and validate
lets see if i understand
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Purpose of observation
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allows for capture of significant visual and audible events
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interview success factors
3
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preparation
flexibility
question quality
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focus groups types and purpose
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homogeneous - all of the same function
heterogeneous - all different functions
for getting a general understanding of requirements.
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JAD purpose and Risk
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used to gather approved requirements in a short time.
Scope creep Risk
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Questionnaires types of questions
4
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Multiple choice
rating scales
ranking
Open-ended
- prototyping
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make abstract concept more concrete
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product trials
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can artificially constrain thinking regarding requirements