Streamlining Business Requirements: The XCellR8 Approach

  • 1h 51m
  • Gerrie Caudle
  • Management Concepts
  • 2009

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 XCellR8TM 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 XCellR8TM 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

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 reengineering. She began her career as a programmer for a major retailer in the early 1970s and has worked in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Asia. Gerrie has cross-industry expertise, having worked within government, financial services, transportation, resource management, hospitality, manufacturing, retail, and distribution industries. Her areas of specialization are business requirements definition and analysis, client training and mentoring, package and custom software evaluation, functional analysis and design, and IT planning and assessment.

Gerrie has been a guest speaker with many professional associations. From 1985 to 1989, she was the executive director of the Canadian Association of Women Business Owners, an organization that helps association members expand their businesses. She is also 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. Her training course is endorsed by the IIBA.

In this Book

  • Streamlining Business Requirements—The XCellR8 Approach
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Appendix—Example Business Requirements Document
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