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A project's success hinges on delivering a quality solution within schedule and budget. But how can a project manager truly know if the delivered solution actually addresses the problem? Business analysis is the process and techniques used to help ensure that the problem gets solved. It starts by identify, document and confirm the high-level requirements that describe the complete solution. These high-level requirements are iteratively worked to refine them into more and more detailed requirements. Each of these levels have their own requirement types defined, with each requirement type including attributes that capture supporting information.

As the requirements are being captured, they can be related to one another in a process called traceability. Requirement traceability is key to ensuring that the problem has been addressed. Traceability provides a linking mechanism between a higher level requirement and the next level of detail. This allows confirmation of two things, first is that all of the higher level requirements have been included in the next level, and secondly that there are no new and potentially out of scope requirements that have been added to the project.

 

Speaker's Bio

David Nagy has over 20 years of experience in various aspects of software development and in business analysis projects. These projects have been for state agencies and private businesses, and have included a mix of new development, enhancements, data migration, and business process improvement. David is currently serving as the President of the Albany Capital District Chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA). His duties include promoting the IIBA and the role of the Business Analyst.