Define Requirements Approach & Project Scope (5%)

Question 1

What is a requirement?

Answer 1

“A feature/characteristic that the business users need the new system (business or IT) to provide”

Question 2

What are the 5 stages of the Requirement Engineering Framework

Answer 2

1. Requirements Elicitation
2. Requirements Analysis
3. Requirements Validation
4. Requirements Documentation
5. Requirements Management

The framework is: iterative not sequential

Question 3

What is the relationship between Elicitation/Analysis/Validation

Answer 3

Elicitation - Information about requirements
Analysis - Improves the quality: generates gaps and questions and determines if more elicitation needs to take place. Analysis produces defined requirements
Validation - Are we willing to accept these requirements/benchmark them? Any issues identified during validation pushes them back into analysis

Question 4

What is the rationale for Requirements Engineering?

Answer 4

• Focuses on defining the ideal characteristics of the product/service that will solve a business problem
• The change must be measured & tracked through the project back into BAU
• Help us to move from AS IS to TO BE

Question 5

Why do Requirements Arise?

Answer 5

1. Business changes (operational/business process change) i.e. growth
2. Strategic change
3. New business, products, business rules or regulations
4. Opportunities for improvement
5. Competition

Question 6

What should be considered when planning the requirement approach?

Answer 6

Requirement work must always be conducted pragmatically & RE framework is intended to be as flexible as the situation demands

• Organisational standards
• Project approach
• Types of Requirement (i.e. is NFR needed?
• Nature of the solution (COTS vs Bespoke)

Question 7

What are the 3 Business Inputs to Requirements?

Answer 7

1. Business Case (investigate feasibility)
2. Terms of Reference (define the project framework)
3. PiD (Initiate the project)

Question 8

Who creates The Business Case / What does it contain?

Answer 8

Created by: Business representative
What does it contain: Justifies investment / Provides options / Measures of success

Question 9

Who creates Terms of Reference (ToR) / What does it contain?

Answer 9

Created by: Project team/representatives
What does it contain: structured way of defining the key components (a time) for a project
O - Objectives
S - Scope
C - Constraints
A - Authority & Assumptions
R - Resources

Question 10

Who creates PID / What does it contain?

Answer 10

Created by: Project manager
What does it contain: (6 Ws) What/why/where/who/when .. of the project
Basis for management of the project & assessment of overall success