The Requirements Excellence Framework™ augments an organization’s existing project management and systems developments processes, bringing a much-needed focus to the developing and managing of a business’s requirements. It provides guidance to business analysts by providing valuable content on how to perform business analysis activities and how to develop and manage good requirements.

The Requirements Excellence Framework™ which was developed using industry best practices and input from industry experts, focuses on four key areas, ensuring that all information regarding a business’ protocols, operations, procedures, and staff needs are defined, maintained, and accurate, so that when innovation is ignited and opportunity knocks, a business can move ahead effectively.

Requirements Excellence Framework is built for business analysts and stakeholders. See the value from a Business Analysis Perspective.

Requirements Knowledge Management

The Requirements Excellence Framework lets users document and share critical knowledge that impacts requirements, including business rules, business processes, stakeholder profiles, and specific product or project information. With the framework, users can collect this data once and refer to it over and over, for project after project. The software keeps track of requirement histories, and easily can be kept updated and added to.

Requirements Planning

The framework is also a how-to guide for gathering information about projects, including the vision, objectives, and scope. It provides guidelines for performing business process and stakeholder analyses, and developing plans for defining, measuring, and even “tagging” requirements based on their impact, value, and priority.

Requirements Development

Unlike other requirements management solutions, the Requirements Excellence Framework™ assumes stakeholder collaboration is the key to success. Based on this, it provides useful techniques to optimize stakeholder participation and support throughout the project lifecycle. The Requirements Excellence Framework™ shows users how to elicit needs from stakeholders, analyze them, and document and development them into a set of functional and supplemental requirements that IT teams can understand and use.

Requirements Management

The Requirements Excellence Framework™ recognizes that requirements should be incorporated throughout the entire project lifecycle and traced from approval through design, system testing, user acceptance testing, post-implementation support, and project retrospectives. The framework allows users to “bundle” related requirements and apply change controls to the entire group.

A Structured Set of Information and Tools

Requirements Excellence Framework™ delivers this information in easy-to-assess formats that let users quickly assimilate the knowledge and put it to work for better requirements.

General Guides

• Provide guidance on performing activities for requirements knowledge management, requirements planning, requirements development, and requirements management
• Give users tools for acquiring stakeholder insight
• Available in online searchable documents