Requirements Management Made Easy
Reduce project failures by using proper Requirements Management techniques

Did you know that more project failures are related to business requirements than anything else? Yet few people know how to manage requirements properly or worse, they don't allocate the time and resources necessary to manage requirements properly.

Defining what you want should not be difficult and why should it be.

Hopefully, you are interested in reducing project problems due to lack of business requirements or poorly written business requirements or even poorly managed business requirements.

Welcome to Requirements Authority. Your number one source for Business Requirements information.

This website is dedicated to managing business requirements and everything related to managing business requirements. We provide enough material to educate Business Analysts and Project Managers and whoever else would like information on managing business requirements.



Business Requirement
What is a Business Requirement? Are all requirements defined a business requirement?

Writing Good Business Requirements
Good Business Requirements leads to project success. What are good Business requirements?

Requirements Traceability
Requirements Traceability aligns with development phases. Good requirements traceability ensures all project deliverables can be traced back to one or more requirement.

Requirements Management Process
Requirements Management Process - a structured approach. Requirements Management Process is a structured approach to the capture, organization and management of Business Requirements.

Control Requirements
Control Requirements Activity is the Requirements Management activity where the planning and change control of the requirements occur.

Gathering Requirements
Gathering Requirements is the Requirements Management activity where the requirements are collected from sources such as stakeholders and documents.

Analyzing Requirements
Analyzing Requirements is the Requirements Management activity where the requirements are negotiated and rewritten into well structured statements.

Organizing Requirements
Organizing Requirements is the Requirements Management process where the actual Business Requirements document is created.

Approving Requirements
Approving Requirements is the Requirements Management activity where the requirements are reviewed, validated and signed off.

Managing Requirements
Managing Requirements ensures alignment with SDLC Phases.

Systems Development Lifecycle
Systems Development Lifecycle - SDLC

Use Case
Use Case Approach to Business Processes. Use Cases are used to represent business processes for software development.

Functional and Non-Functional Requirements
Functional and Non-Functional Requirements. Requirements can be classified as either Functional or Non-Functional.

Recommended Reading
recommended reading, books, requirements management, project management

Requirements Gathering Workshops
How do you facilitate Requirements Gathering Workshops?

Requirements Gathering Reading
Requirements gathering reading is about reading documents looking for Business Requirements?

Subject Matter Experts
How do you use subject matter experts for requirements?

Requirements Gathering Interviews
How do you conduct Requirements Gathering Interviews?

Existing Systems
Analyzing existing systems for requirements

Prototype
Use a prototype to gather requirements

Market Analysis Requirements
Gathering requirements using Market Analysis from competitive products

Observing Requirements
Observing requirements entails watching users for requirements

Prioritizing Requirements
How are the requirements prioritized and what are the benefits or prioritizing requirements?

Stakeholder Negotiation
How to perform Stakeholder Negotiation..

Approval Process
What are the different ways to conduct the approval process?

Baseline Requirements
Using the Approved Requirements as the baseline requirements for the project.

Business Analyst Journal
Business Analyst Information