Streamlining Business Requirements: The XCellR8 Approach: The XCellR8 Approach

By Gerrie Caudle

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.

This book offers comprehensive framework needed to:

Effectively analyze business requirements
Properly identify business events
Prepare for a requirements session
Better understand the “big picture”

Contents

What Is the XCellR8™ Approach? • The XCellR8™ Approach: Identifying Business Events • The XCellR8™ Approach: The Event Process Model • The XCellR8™ Approach: The Event Entity Relationship Diagram and Data Attribution • Putting It All Together • The Life Cycle of an Object • The XCellR8™ Approach: Completeness Tests • The XCellR8™ Approach: The Big Picture • Using Use Cases • Test Scenarios • Business Requirements Traceability • Applying the XCellR8™ Approach

About the Author

Gerrie Caudle is the President of Toshmar Systems Consulting Inc., an international consulting and training firm that specializes in business requirements gathering and process re-engineering. Gerrie specializes in cross-industry projects, having carried out assignments within government, financial services, transportation, resource, hospitality, manufacturing, retail, and distribution. She was a contributing member of the International Institute for Business Analysis (IIBA) and was instrumental in drafting the first body of knowledge on gathering business requirements.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Management Concepts Press
• Release date: Jul 1, 2009
• ISBN: 9781567262780