Requirements Planning

[The Project Charter should be expanded upon and developed into a planning document which includes:

The objective of requirements planning is to identify the various factors to consider in developing a comprehensive set of requirements.

· The initial scope

· System interfaces

· Interests of key stakeholders

· Impacts to the customer or end user

· Level of stakeholder involvement

· Technical considerations

· An estimate of time, resources and costs required for the project

· Identification of subject matter experts for requirements gathering and development

The Planning document will provide the information needed to share the scope of the requirements with identified stakeholder groups and assemble the necessary team members to begin requirements development.]

Requirements Development

[The purpose of composing formal requirements is to provide the developer with detailed business, functional and technical specifications for the design, development and implementation of a project, system or a system change.

In developing the technical requirements for a system, the analyst must guard against the natural tendency to turn the identified requirement into a design or implementation approach or definition. The requirements tell the developer what needs to be done, not how it shall be done.

An important early step is to organize a requirements team that includes members representing the customers, end users, key stakeholders, and internal business and technical experts. The project must have a strong commitment to participation from the management of each team member.

The following subsections break down requirements development into a number of steps.]

Date: 2015-02-16; view: 774