Requirements Consulting

Intertech’s software development professionals guide you to create a world-class requirements including help:

• Share strategies for requirements in maintenance projects, outsourced development, and early adopter projects
• Establish product vision and project scope
• Understand, document, and validate user requirements
• Reduce risk through prototyping
• Implement tools and processes for requirements management
• Define strategies and procedures for risk management
• Identify the core risks and mitigation strategies including insufficient user involvement, creeping requirements, ambiguous requirements, minimal specifications, and inaccurate planning
• Share and set targets for excellent requirements    
• Define best practices for requirements engineering including requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, validation, and management
• Coach and improve the skills of analysts on the team
• Define vision thru business requirements including addressing conflicting business requirements, use cases, and business context
• Identify the major voices of the customer including choosing a product champion, defining their expectations, and knowing the traps to avoid in choosing a product champion
• Implement use cases including usage scenarios, identifying/documenting use cases, and tips/tricks/traps related to use cases
• Correctly define the specification including labeling requirements and dealing with incomplete requirements
• Share software requirements templates that includes description, system features, external interface requirements, nonfunctional requirements, and data dictionaries
• Outline models and define standards for what model works best:  use cases, data flows, entity-relationship (ER), state-transition, dialog map, class diagrams, and decision tables and trees
• Create targets for quality and performance
• Share field proven best practices for prototyping including horizontal prototypes, vertical prototypes, throwaway prototypes, and evolutionary prototypes
• Share best practices for requirements prioritization including models based on value, cost, and risk
• Outline plans for requirements validation including testing requirements for completeness and defining acceptance criteria
• Understand and use requirements management principles and practices including creating the baseline, implementing version control, and measuring requirements management effort
• Share field tested best practices for change control including defining a change control policy, implementing change control tools, and measuring/monitoring change activity
• Create systems to improve the requirements process including accessing current practices, pilot new processes, and result evaluation