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Requirements Analysis
Getting the Requirements Right
Failure to obtain accurate and complete business requirements has long been the sour note of application development. Lack of communication between the developers and business users leads to more project failures than any other single cause. Metastorm's model driven solution for requirements analysis can change that.
Metastorm ProVision® enables business and IT teams to establish consensus on how business processes should work, which business processes are best served through automation, and how technology will support those business processes. It includes detailed business models that eliminate ambiguity and provide a clear, detailed definition of business requirements. The resulting model-based deliverables are a reliable basis for designing an automated solution.
Before your organization launches its next package selection, implementation or upgrade, make sure you identify the right requirements. Metastorm ProVision will significantly reduce requirement errors and thus improve software quality.
Who does Requirements Analysis?
- System Engineers
- Business Analysts
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- Developers
- Project Leaders
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- Product Managers
- Design Engineers
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Top 10 reasons to use Metastorm ProVision for Requirements Analysis:
- No requirements modeling tool is easier to use! Your requirements modeling tool most likely will be used by the same analysts who use MS Office. Metastorm ProVision was designed to be intuitive for
MS Office users. The portal, a powerful and
easy-to-use graphical user interface for Metastorm
ProVision, provides an intuitive way to graphically
model and gather requirements from multiple
perspectives.
- Metastorm ProVision models provide the most
effective method for gathering, visualizing and
analyzing business requirements. This is further
enhanced by Metastorm ProVision's ability to manage
objects across models and create associations
between various object types. Powerful association
matrices can also display and manipulate
associations between any two object types.
- With Metastorm ProVision you see the big picture.
You can define and analyze the entire requirements
business domain. Metastorm ProVision contains a
powerful “interpreter” which translates any model
into simple English at the click of a mouse.
- Put your requirements in class by themselves.
Metastorm ProVision describes the information for a
given business domain as a set of business classes.
Using the Business Class Model these classes can be
structured into a representation of how they fit
relative to other classes in the domain. The
Business Class Model also shows the three types of
properties for each business class: its
associations, attributes, and operations.
- Just identifying the information is not enough.
An understanding of the changes that business
undergoes requires a Statechart Model. With the
Statechart Model an analyst can focus on a
particular business class and illustrate its
lifecycle. The Statechart Model allows an analyst to
depict the major stages (states) that an instance of
the business class can experience, the allowable
transitions between states, and the operations that
transition the instance from state to state.
- Tie information changes to business activities.
Metastorm ProVision can define operations that bring
about the state changes related to a business class.
This provides analysts with the ability to link
operations associated with each class directly to
one or more activities, or link multiple business
classes to a single activity through a sequence
model, which describes a series of operations across
of classes.
- Automation is the key. Business activities
described in Metastorm ProVision can be extended to
show the specific user interfaces required to access
a proposed system as well as the navigation between
them. These user interfaces can also be extended to
show interface mockups or images of the actual
interfaces to assist in system design and
documentation. Interfaces between systems can also
be described using the communication model.
- Flexibility as a rule. By using the rule object
and model, business rules can be captured, organized
and associated with any Metastorm ProVision object.
- Put your requirements on a firm foundation.
Metastorm ProVision provides an instrument to define
and model requirements related to infrastructure
components in the form of facilities, equipment and
technologies.
- The key factor in assuring requirement accuracy
is visibility. Metastorm ProVision models and
interpretations can be published as HTML files that
can be viewed interactively by all team members. The
information captured in Metastorm ProVision can also
be used to facilitate training during
implementation.
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