Hi,
I am working on a project in which I am doing the business requirements documentation. While working on the documents, we had a conflicting situation in which one Team expects the Error & alert messages that a user receives to be in the business requirements section; where as the other team expects all those errors and alerts to be consolidated and kept in an appendix. Where do you think is the right place or addressing these requirements? In the detailed requirements section where the detailed requirements are documented or at the end of the document in the Appendix?

Thank you for your time,
Chaithanya Atthanti.

Hello,

I have a project where the client does not want to do full-blown requirements for budget reasons. After this document, we'll go straight to defining the High-Level Technical Design, then Detailed Technical Design and Implementation Plan. I understand not having detailed requirements is not ideal and have raised this as a risk for the project.

My questions are:

1. What type of documentation would you expect to utilize for documenting Functional Needs Assessment? Is a "Vision" type document sufficient?

2. What type of information would you want included in this document?

I have a clear idea of what I want to do, but I want to get further ideas from collaboration with other BA's in the world.

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Let's say you were selling an application that runs on self-service kiosks... You spend months and months documenting the specific requirements (i.e. functional requirements, assumptions, constraints, screens, screen behaviour etc..) and of course each requirement has a unique identifier.. for example Functional requiremetn - FR-001, Assumption - AS-001 etc.. .

Now you have to do the same for a similiar application that will be running in a web environment... The first thing you realize is alot of the requirements/assumptions/constraints etc.. apply equally to both applications.. I am debating whether to reuse them and keep all the unique identifiers or whether or not i redefine them with unique id's applicable to the channel (i.e. FR-Web-001, FR-Kiosk-001 etc..). I am thinking that it's probably best to reuse them across channels rather than duplicate them... however i do not see how this can be properly done without some sort of traceability matrix.. as follows:

Requirement ID Channel
FR-001 Web
Kiosk
========================
FR-002 Web
========================
FR-003 Kiosk
========================
AS-001 Web
Kiosk
========================

The concern is having the time to maintain a traceability matrix without an automated tool...which we do not have.. If we could maintain such a traceability table i think it really empowers b/a's to think holistically when it comes to requirements across product channels.. Also, for change managemet/scope mgmt etc..

any thoughts/feedback are appreciated

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- We need to set the guidelines up beforehand if we are to co-host an event with another group.

A member of my study group, Agness Lee, has put her hand up to join our ranks :). Other than adding her to the Committee group on here, is there anything else that needs to happen?

Thanks
Dunja

Could someone spend 15 minutes with me at some point showing me how to use this forum? Obviously, technology is just not my thing. :confused:

Is anyone using social media (facebook, Twitter, etc), in their software development lifecyle? If so, how are you using it:

• Project status updates
• Post requirements
• Seek approval of documents

Came across this interesting article worth sharing:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10t...87?tag=nl.e101

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Does anyone have a template for developing new reports. Should encompass things like sorting and filter criteria, calculations, data elements, appearance and style requirements. We have requirements document templates but none of them seem to suit reports very well. We are going through a process improvement program and many of the improvements have to do with automating reports that are done manually.

From last night's committee meeting we have agreed that we will take a day out to devote to our strategy as a committee to plan out our goals.

First thing to decide on is a date - Last night we provisionally looked at a weekend day in July. Can you all respond on your availability?

I'll draft an agenda for the day but would like you all to please pull it apart as we need to focus on what is really going to set us up for success going forward.

Hi folks,
I am a new member of IIBA. I have worked as a hybrid PM and BA for many years, TPM as my last employer called it. I recently decided to focus purely on the solution side and took a job as a pure IT BA.

The company I joined is in a fast growth stage and does not have much in the way of processes or documentation. So I immediately set out to start building these. Recently I received an email of a data integration requirment for an existing system I have not seen and do not have referential documentation.

So I took a stab at my response based on the email and the limited information but sent it to my boss to see if I was understanding the system and issue. It was basically a data integration that would transform values in a non-standard manner for the system.

He expressed concern with my response from the standpoint of my field competewnce but I was a bit confused as to how I could accurately respond to a question on a system I literally know nothing about (hence why I sent it to him). I was actually not far off with my response.

My question is, am I off base in my concerns? Should there be an expectation that an IT BA have some knowledge of or documentation for a system to accurately analyze and respond? I fully expected such challenges and that is why I took the position. But I am not sure the expectations realistically match anyone's capabilities.

I have done this quite successfully for years, but now I find that I am questioning myself.

I just wanted a sanity check before I challenge him on this issue.
Thoughts?
Thanks

How does Volere Requirements Specification Model relate to the IIBA BABOK? Has anyone actual experience with Volere?
http://www.volere.co.uk/

Thx

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