Effectively Define and Gather Your Business Requirements Today!
Many programming systems today are designed and constructed before business requirements are completed and finalized. Without a proper foundation, these systems will eventually crumble. Streamlining Business Requirements: The XCellR8™ Approach provides project managers and business analysts with the foundation, principles, and steps needed to document business requirements in an accurate and efficient manner. Author Gerrie Caudle introduces the XCellR8™ approach, an analysis method used to gather business requirements in a structured, well-defined set of steps.
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Streamlining Business Requirements: The XCellR8 Approach| Gerrie Caudle (Author)| Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Table of Contents
Introduction
“What Are Business Requirements?” “What Makes a Business Requirement Good?”, The Requirements Phase, The Requirements-Gathering Process.
Chapter 1. What Is the XCellR8™: Approach?
“What Is XCellR8™?”, “Why Does XCellR8™ Work?”.
Chapter 2. The XCellR8™ Approach: Identifying Business Events
Using Business Rules to Find Events, Case Study: Business Events for a Portfolio Management Project.
Chapter 3. The XCellR8™ Approach: The Event Process Model
Parts of the Event Process Model, Business Event Triggers, Exercise: Creating Event Process Models for an Internal Technical Support System, Event Process Models in Everyday Situations, Creating Event Process Models for a Simple Purchase Order System.
Chapter 4. The XCellR8™ Approach: The Event Entity
Relationship Diagram and Data Attribution The Event Entity Relationship Diagram, Object Relationships, Creating an Event Entity Relationship Diagram, “What Is Data Attribution?”.
Chapter 5. Putting It All Together
“What Is a Requirements Session?”, Preparing for a Requirements Session, Scoping a Project, Conducting the Requirements Session, Eliciting the Requirements, The Business Requirements Document.
Chapter 6. The Life Cycle of an Object
Using an Object Life Cycle Matrix.
Chapter 7. The XCellR8™ Approach: Completeness Tests
Completeness of a Business Event, “Is Your Event Process Description Complete?”, Completeness of Business Requirements.
Chapter 8. The XCellR8™ Approach: The Big Picture
End-to-End Business Scenarios, Using a Swim Lane Diagram, Using a Context Diagram, Logical Data Modeling, Nonfunctional Requirements.
Chapter 9. Using Use Cases
"What Is a Use Case?”, How Business Events and Use Cases Relate to One Another, Requirements Elicitation in a Use Case Structure, Process Flow Charts.
Chapter 10. Test Scenarios
Writing Test Scenarios, Test Cases, The Test Specification Document.
Chapter 11. Business Requirements Traceability
Traceability to an Original Business Requirement, Types of Traceability, Practical Traceability Tips.
Chapter 12. Applying the XCellR8™ Approach
New Development, Reverse Engineering, Process Reengineering, Business Process Mapping, Enhancement.
Appendix: Example Business Requirements Document
Glossary
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