In an ideal situation, the business people have their requirements well defined and the ICT people understand what the product is intended to accomplish. They should speak "the same language" to define and understand the required end results.
Requirements Management is one of the key processes where business and ICT people meet each other in their day to day practice. The following challenges arise:
- How should the business specify the requirements? What do we need to know?
- How can we manage the analysis and development process better?
- How can we manage the change and configuration process better?
- Do we buy or build our product?
- How do we ensure that the solution satisfies and improves the business?
- Is our current ICT organization capable to develop the product?
- How can we predict whether the requirements will be met?
BeAligned approaches Requirements Management as an end-to-end process, starting from an idea to the management of operational system changes.
Audits
We analyse your current requirement processes. The results of the analysis enable us to address the strengths and weaknesses in this area. Our consultants formulate the actions for improvement on the complete product life cycle.
The audit is based on best practices from PMI, Prince2, CMMI, TOGAF, ITIL, Volere, etc.
Requirements Management Metaprocess
BeAligned approaches Requirements Management as a meta process. We define and implement mechanisms on the following stages of the product life cycle:
1. An idea or request
2. Development of the business case
3. Product definition (blueprint)
4. Analysis (business-functional-technical)
5. Building
6. Testing
7. Operational Change
The implementation of Requirements Management is based on best practices from PMI, Prince2, CMMI, TOGAF, ITIL, Volere, UML etc.
Requirements Management Governance
Once the requirement management processes are designed and implemented in your company it is important to have the right quality controls in place and to embed them in your governance structures, such as PMO, IT Steering Committee, Architecture Boards, Change Advisory Board, etc.
As part of the requirements management implementation, we recommend and implement the right governance mechanisms. We coach your people and assist in quality control.
