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The right requirements right
The requirements challenge
Whenever customers ask Synergio for help with requirements these are the two top questions:
1. How do you know you have the requirements right?
2. How do you know you have the right requirements?
The first question relates to the quality of the requirements: are the requirements SMART: Specific, Measurable, Acceptable, Realistic and Time framed? And how do you check if the requirements are SMART?
Synergio developed a set of guidelines to write SMART requirements. These allow you to easily assess the quality of your requirements and identify areas for improvement - a requirements scorecard.
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Executive Guide to Evaluating Requirements Quality
Requirements quality is tangible. It is possible to look at the specific characteristics of requirements documentation and determine if it is sufficiently clear, accurate and complete to lead to a successful project. Since flawed requirements trigger about 70% of all project failures,1 this paper will present some hard and fast rules for looking at requirements documents, in any format, and being able to determine if they are reasonably well constructed. It will outline the key points to look for in a requirements document, and why this can save a company hundreds of thousands of dollars. Finally, it will offer five straightforward questions to address when evaluating requirements quality.
Business Requirements - An Inconvenient Truth?
There are as many definitions of a “business requirement”, as there are people or organizations that you might ask! In fact, this is often the case even for folks who work within the same organization or department.
The creation of business requirements in most organizations seems to be somewhat of an art form. Random snippets of business information are collected and stored at often inconsistent levels of detail, and practitioners often use soft science or informal business requirement gathering/elicitation approaches e.g. (interviews with business representatives, work sessions, etc.) and tools.
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