Target and Objective

Rationale and objectives

Nearly every system could be described with the global requirement „someone should do something“. In another extreme, it's possible to bind 80% of the development team with the documentation of requirements without any problems. The described requirements management illustrates the chosen and efficient trade-off in the context of the project „PolitAktiv“. The objectives are:

• Creating an agile requirements analysis environment, that works in a high dynamic team and with voluntary staff.
• A requirements management that matches with an iterative approach.
• For keeping the focus, prioritisation has to support on all levels.
• TestFirst should be positioned in the method.

Target group

The target group for this document are requirements analysts, IT product manager, departmental staff affected by IT projects, IT project manager, IT architects and quality control directors.

Scope and delimitation

This document illuminates the structuring and management of requirements. The exemplified ideas stand in the context of DomainDrivenArchitecture.org. This means particularly, that

• Methods for requirements analysis – especially for validation and consistency of requirements – are illuminated in a separate document.
• Domain Driven Design makes a stable separation between technical architecture and business architecture possible. The interaction and the actual technical architecture are illuminated in a separate document.
• This separation between technical and business architecture allows – in a first realization phase - to focus on the business architecture (and the business interface). According to this, in this document non-functional requirements are discussed only marginally.