BRD vs. Functional Software Requirements

Business requirements vs Functional requirements

We often get the question asking “what is the difference between business requirements and functional requirements?” In prior posts I have discussed that these distinctions are actually artificial and are artifacts of an organization structure that requires people in “the business” to produce a “business requirements document (BRD)” vs.

User Adoption Metrics that Matter

If a system is deployed and no one uses it, does it exist? How can you recognize the full business value of a system if no one is actually using it correctly? User adoption is, at least indirectly, a critical project success metric.

3 Basic Tips to Data Migration Requirements for your Software Project

It's late stage of a project, so it's time to start worrying about your data migration requirements if you haven't already! If you have done it, good for you! You can just stop reading.

Getting Ramped Up

Luckily I have been working fairly consistently with the same client lately. This means that I haven’t had to constantly jot down notes during meetings on things to look up afterward, find corporate maps so I don’t get lost in symmetrical buildings with no windows, or remember not to call the client by the previous engagement’s name.

Use Full Time Requirements Engineers to Manage Change Requests

Change Requests or CR from Business Users after an application has been deployed are an integral part of the Development Process.

The Other 8 Groups in the Software Requirements Audience

Do you know who your audience is for your software requirements? Why, it’s the development organization, of course! And while that is true, development is the main audience for software requirements, there are many other audience members as well.

An Actual Case of Software Requirements Re-use

We have been using Caliber for a few years and we recently decided to research whether there was a requirements management tool that more cleanly supported working offline.

Spread the Word: Stop Password Masking

One of my pet peeves is password masking. I find nothing more frustrating than having a log-in rejected, and not being able to verify that it is correct because I can’t see the password.

Requirements Specification Template

We’ve just updated our suggested business requirements document template, though it can be used as a template for any type of requirements specification.

6 Basic Techniques for Successful Requirements Elicitation with Remote International Customers

In this global environment, there is rarely a project we work on that doesn’t have some set of customer users in a remote location, inevitably overseas.