Requirements Management Process.
Managing requirements in a proper way is a key parameter for the project or solution’s success. The approach of the requirements collection and management may be different but the final goal for all the BAs is the same.
In a nutshell, requirements management is a box of activities that help BAs to ensure requirements elicitation, documentation, refinement, and changes of requirements are adequately dealt with during a product development lifecycle.
As a part of the Project Management Plan, a Requirements Management Plan (RMP) elaborates the requirements types, specifications, detailing, the requirements management process through the development stage. It helps a BA to measure, report, and control the changes to the requirements.
Requirements Management Process starts with Requirements Planning. As a Business Analyst, anyone has to first develop a plan for gathering and communicating requirements with Requirements Scope, Dependencies, Risks, existing Roles, Communication Plan for Project’s Stakeholder & Sponsors, a detailed Project Plan.
After the Planning, the Business Analyst needs to develop his requirements. We can say this step is Requirements Development. In this step, BA will gather the requirements (or business, problems statements), then define those gathered requirements in specific documents and analyze those properly to identify the scopes and features along with the possible risks.
Then a Business Analyst will have to Verify & Validate all of his requirements in the design and development stage. BA will conduct multiple sessions will end-users, stakeholders to validate the solutions which he will be going to develop. All the functions need to be identical in this stage.
The last stage will be the Requirements Change Management stage. BAs task for the requirements does not end with the project release. After the initial deployment, he will investigate the user experience along with his analyzed scope to identify the feedbacks which might be his new scope for the upcoming new phase or Change Requests (CR).