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Five Tips For Getting the Software Requirement Analysis Right the First Time

Importance of Requirement Analysis We all know that requirements need to gathered before any software development project. Do we really understand the importance of it....

Getting requirements right, early in your project, can save you one-third or more of your overall project budget. (Hooks and Farry, 2001)

You save money by getting requirements right to begin with. Why? Because fixing requirements errors accounts for 70% to 80% of your rework costs (Leffingwell, 1997).

The quality of the requirements captured will be define to a great extent if your project will be a success or a failure. Sometimes you may be asked to cut down the requirement capture time my argument to that would be "If you cannot invest in getting the requirements done right the first time, how are you going to afford the cost and time that would be required to fix it which would be much more that what needs to be invested now."

Tips for Requirement Analysis The requirement analysis and capture process should result in documentation which will cover the following aspects:

Define the Problem and High level description of the solution. The requirement Analyst needs to understand the problem and the need for solution. The questions which need to answered here are


What problems is the solution going to resolve? What benefits is the company going to derive from the solution? Are the requirements implementable?

Apart from answering the above questions a high level description of the solution which needs to be developed and the business needs it is going to address needs to be documented.


Cover needs of all stakeholders and users of the solution. You need to make sure that needs of all stakeholders are understood. You also need to understand the needs of the people who are ultimately going to use the solution / system. This is very important so that the solution delivers on all counts.This will also help in identifying conflicting requirements if any.

Define what the solution should and should not do. You should not only define what the solution should do but also define what the solution will not do. The requirements should be stated in a manner that nothing is left for imagination or which creates doubts.

Define the features required. Elaborate on the features required in the software solution. In Technical terms define Functional and Non-functional requirements . Try and capture the "What's" and not "How's".

Capture all supporting information. Include details about the Processes followed, Workflow, Information flow, hierarchies etc. Record any other information which might be relevant to the solution under consideration. Identify the source of all requirements and have them in documented in such a way that they are manageable.

Once you have applied all the above tips you will have Feasible, Non conflicting, Unambiguous, Traceable and Testable Requirements.

Benefits of Good Requirement Analysis
Cost Savings Shorten your development cycle Get a product that meets your needs Boost the team's productivity Reduce rework and conflicts arising from unclear and ambiguous requirements

Now that we understand how important it is to get the requirements right early on. Go and get your requirements right the first time...

You can look forward to the following topics in the series of requirement capture and analysis - Documenting Requirements, Common problems encountered during requirement analysis.

Pooja Gupta is a Co-Founder of FDSC, a software development company in India providing a range of software development services and helping it's customers achieve their business goals. Service offerings include new product development, custom software development, web based content management systems, business analysis and more.

How to Avoid Failure of Software Project

A successful software project is completed on time and on budget, with all features and functions as envisaged. Challenged software project is completed and operational but it exceeds budget, time estimate and works with fewer features and functions than originally conceived. Impaired software project gets canceled at some point during the development cycle.

A research suggests that 16.2% projects are successful, 52.7% software projects are challenged and 31.1% are impaired software project.

One should concentrate on the following points to enjoy the success

User involvement
Executive management support
Clear statements of requirements
Proper planning
Realistic expectations
Smaller project milestones
Competent staff
Ownership
Clear vision and objectives
Hard working and focused staff
One should avoid the following reasons for failure

The development team did not posses the matching skill set and experience

Lack of involvement of users during the development process
Payment was not related to productivity
Frequent change in the development team
Absence of modular structure in design
Poor HR management
Lack of sense of ownership among the users
The changing needs and requirements of the users were not addressed
Lack of proper documentation
Lack of proper distribution of roles and responsibilities
Improper test planning
Poor requirement management
Poor data design
Improper choice of technology
Inadequate management support
Poor management vision
Poor project communication
Inadequate user training
Frequent change in the user team
System not user friendly
Conflict among stakeholder
All these reasons for failure can be categorized in to four different chunks

In house capability

The development team did not posses the matching skill set and experience, absence of modular structure in design, poor data design, inadequate user training, improper choice of technology

Client commitment

Lack of involvement of users during the development process, lack of sense of ownership among the users, payment was not related to productivity, conflict among stakeholders, frequent change in the user team.

Project management

Poor HR management, lack of proper distribution of roles and responsibilities, inadequate management support, poor management vision, poor project communication, improper test planning, Lack of proper documentation, frequent change in the development team.

Requirement Management

The changing needs and requirements of the user were not addressed, system not user friendly, poor requirement analysis and management.

All these points should be treated as a first step.

Prajakta Chandrakant Dhote, Jr Faculty IT in ICFAI National College, chandrapur, Maharashtra, India. At present doing research on Fuzzy Logic

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TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--the Pilgrim Software, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of software solutions, Enterprise risk, compliance and quality management (ERCQM), today announced that QPharma, Inc., a leader in Life Sciences FDA regulatory and compliance services and Pilgrim have agreed to carry out full set of QPharma validation, quality and regulatory compliance advisory services available to their customers, in collaboration with the family of Pilgrim SmartSolve R products.

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This partnership will allow both companies to share resources, furthering each partner vested interests in the field of life sciences, and will help organizations ensure that compliance regulatory efforts that are treated as part of a larger business process improvement.

"We are delighted to work with Pilgrim software," said Ray Roggero, COO of QPharma. "It is a natural fit with the Pilgrim integrated risk, compliance and quality management solution, and encouraging the natural synergies between QPharma, Pilgrim and organizations can gain an effective, practical roadmap for achieving compliance with the objectives of their quality and safety."

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About Pilgrim Software, Inc.

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