Confirming elicitation results

Once requirements have been elicited they have to be confirmed.

Though stakeholders might seem sure of they want, confirming the requirements with these stakeholders might yield additional insight, expose assumptions and possibly create additional requirements.

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Communicating business analysis information

Once the requirements have been confirmed the business analyst would have to communicate the confirmed requirements. These confirmed requirements are known as the business analysis information packages.

The information packages are created to ensure that the stakeholders have a shared … Read the rest

Requirements verification

Once the requirements and designs have been specified and modeled they need to be verified.

The requirements need to be verified to ensure that they have been defined correctly, meet quality standards and can be used to fulfill the need.… Read the rest

Requirements lifecycle management

The requirements life cycle management knowledge area describes the tasks that are used to manage and maintain requirements and design information throughout the life cycle of the solution.

These tasks in the requirement life cycle management knowledge area are used … Read the rest

Tracing requirements

Requirements tracing is used to ensure that the requirements and designs which might be at different levels are aligned to each other.

It is also used to manage the effects of the changes of one requirement in relation to other … Read the rest

Requirements maintenance

Requirements are maintained to ensure that requirement accuracy is retained and there is consistency throughout the requirements life cycle. It also supports the reuse of the requirements in other solutions.

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Requirements prioritization

The prioritize requirements task is used to rank requirements in the order of their importance.

The requirements have to be ranked to determine their importance to the stakeholders. Ranking can be based on the relative value of the requirement or … Read the rest

Requirements approvals

Stakeholders have to approve the requirements and design for work to continue on the solution, in order for this to occur the stakeholders have to have an understanding of the requirements and design.

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Specifying and modeling requirements

The specify and model requirement activity is used to analyze, integrate, and process elicitation results into requirements and designs.

When the specify and model requirements is focused on understanding the needs of the organization and the output of that activity … Read the rest

Requirements analysis and design

Once the requirements have been elicited, specified, modeled, verified and validated, the potential solution options need to be identified.

To achieve this the requirements need to be structured and organized, the tasks that are used to achieve the structuring and … Read the rest