Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Guidelines for Business Requirements Document

Trying to avoid thick Business Requirements Document (BRD) together with Functional Specification Document (FSD) as well as to shorten the time frame needed for preparing both of them, I compiled a document template that happened to be quite useful in a number of projects.

The idea is to take business project participants away from long verbal, and sometimes even inconsistent and confusing, descriptions and let them get concentrated on four basic models that clearly define what and how a new system should do. The models are:

- Use Case Model
- Domain Model
- Workflow Model, and
- GUI Model

On top of these four models, a development team would build an IT Model (or Implementation Model). Basically, these four models help to align Business Model with IT Model avoiding possible misunderstandings in communication between business analysts, software developers and system testers.

Document template could be downloaded here.

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