Overview

In most IT projects, the biggest challenge and often overlook process is in making sure the solution correctly addresses the stated business requirements. Often these requirements are miscommunicated or misinterpreted, resulting in project delays, resource shortfalls, friction between technical and business users, and potential project failures. Therefore, a process and tool was needed to ensure that all parties had the same understanding of the business requirements so that a successful solution could be developed and implemented. The Business Requirements Architecture (BRA) was developed in response to this need.

About the workshop :

This training is especially designed and formulated to provide step by step guidance in implementing the BRA process.  This training includes four group workshops that will familiarize the participants with the BRA template and give them an opportunity to work through the BRA using real-world examples. The BRA template enables both technical and business users to probe the business requirements systematically through required sections. For each of the required sections, the user can estimate how much a particular functionality is expected to cost, the amount of human resources it will require, and what network bandwidth requirement and hardware configuration is necessary to execute the task.

Who should attend :

 The target audience is those involved in gathering User/Business Requirements from both Business Team as well as Technical Team.

- Project Sponsor/System Owner: to understand the complete requirements of the system and to understand the project cost to develop the system. In addition, this process will also help to prioritize the functional requirement features into project phases

- Project Manager: to better estimate project duration, cost and skill or resources required to build the system

- Business Analyst: to better understand the business requirements and how to articulate the requirement to the technical team

- System Analyst: to better understand the user requirements and to enhance communication with the business team

- Technical/Solution Architect: to better understand the business requirements and to start the technical architecture planning using BRA document as an input

- Software Quality Assurance/Testers: to produce more robust functional test scenarios using BRA document

- Database Administrator: to better understand the data field requirement to produce database table design

- RFP team: to minimize risk in awarding the project to IT vendor

- IT Vendors who respond to RFP: to increase the chances in winning the projects by showing the client that you know and understand the business requirements