When a product or service implementation fails, unclear and poorly defined requirements usually get the blame. But what people fail to identify time and time again is the exact point at which the requirements became flawed.
Regardless of what you’re building – requirements included – if you don’t have a solid foundation, sooner or later, things are going to come crashing down.
Great requirements development begins with a thorough review of the existing business architecture. Establishing a strong foundation here will help you build the requirements development and management activities necessary to prove the business case for a proposed solution.
This presentation will focus on the six enterprise analysis steps you can take to build a solid foundation for your requirements.
They include:
- Existing business architecture
- High-level scope of the project
- Feasibility of multiple solution options
- Economic feasibility of the proposed solution
- High-level risk considerations
- Presentation of your decision package
Mr. Brûlé will also address the many additional ingredients essential for cementing well-defined requirements into desired stakeholders solutions, including vision statements, glossaries, stakeholder profiles, context diagrams, state machine diagrams, business rules and use case diagrams.
Skill Level: Advanced
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Glenn Brûlé, Director of Client Solutions, ESI International
Glenn Brûlé, Director of Client Solutions for ESI International, has more than 18 years of experience in many facets of business, including project management, business analysis, software design and facilitation. At ESI, he is responsible for supporting a global team of business consultants working with Fortune 1000 organizations. Glenn's background as an educator, communicator and business consultant has served him well through his many client engagements. These engagements have focused on understanding, diagnosing and providing workable business solutions to complex problems across various industries, including financial services, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, insurance and automotive, as well as government agencies
In addition to his position at ESI, Glenn is a founding member and serves as a Director at Large for the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA). Glenn’s primary responsibility is to form local chapters of the IIBA around the world by working with volunteers from such countries as Italy, India, Singapore, China, Japan, Germany, and the Czech Republic to name a few.
Glenn is a frequent speaker at professional association meetings and conference around the world, including ProjectWorld/World Congress for Business Analysts and IIBA events. Glenn has authored numerous articles on business analysis and was instrumental in the development of two ESI white papers: “Eight Things Your Business Analysts Need to Know—A Practical Approach to Building and Improving Competencies” and “Establishing and Maturing a Business Analysis Centre of Excellence—the Essential Guide.”
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