Generate System Specifications Automatically from BPR Driven Process Models

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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 15:29:22 -0000

If you are looking for a decent requirement tool you should first look at
the process / methodology used for capturing requirements.

Many projects fail due to methodologies involving simply asking potential
system users what they want. Odds are that until the users see a developed
system they wont know what they want which leads to failed accpetance of
systems and large gaps in requirements.

I work for a company that propmotes an alternative, but well established
methodology of designing a business process with the potential users then
drives the system requirements out of the process. This approach has a few
distinct advantages such as;

1. Business users can visualise a process and have a framework for thinking
about what they will need to support the process
2. Bells and whistles requirements can be eliminated from the requirements
through easy identification as if they do not add value in the process step
they should not be done.
3. Generally when users think of processes they are thinking of where they
would like to be in 6-12 months time or where they are heading, when asked
simply for requirements they will think tactically about what they need here
and now to support the current way they work.
4. When planning an end to end process with the business you can easiliy
identify and fill the gaps in requirements and possibly even identify
business units that you need to talk to but would otherwise have not
identified as users.

To summarise, it is relatively easy with the right software such as the
process modeller, and system spec generator in KnowITSoft's CAPeR suite to
model a relatively gap free set of system requirements and portray these
back to the business as a process model which they will understand more
fully.

For more information http://www.knowitsoft.com/index.php?pid=2402

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