No More Ambiguities

Processes, Products, Projects often fail because of poorly written requirements that are ambiguous and difficult to test. The Optimize product stylized method for specifying requirements, coupled with its built-in requirements analysis tools, helps ensure that all stakeholders understand the requirements and the requirements are readily testable. Continuously performing a process efficiently, maximizing the revenues from your organization’s products, and delivering projects on time, within budget, and fulfilling all of its requirements is a challenging effort. The client and end-user seldom know what they want at the start of a process, product, or project. As they progress, requirements are continuously changing. The Optimize product informs the key stakeholders whenever a requirement within their process, product, or project changes.

Analysis for Ambiguities

Often, stakeholders do not agree on the meaning of a requirement. The Optimize product includes a “Requirements Analyzer” that warns key stakeholders of ambiguous requirements. When a new or changed requirement, the Optimize product analyzes the requirement. The requirement’s process, product, project manager, and the process, product, or project portfolio manager are informed when requirement problems exist.

Testing

Deliverables need to be as robust as possible. The users of the deliverable need assurance that each deliverable’s requirements are thoroughly tested. The Optimize product offers a method for specifying requirements that simplifies creating a comprehensive test for the requirements. Each low-level requirement, a requirement with no sub-requirements, is linked to one or more test cases. The Optimize product verifies each low-level requirement has one or more test cases.

Communication

Stakeholders need notification when requirements have issues as soon as possible. The Optimize product sends a message to the appropriate Business Analyst, Process Manager, Product Manager, Project Manager, Process Portfolio Manager, Product Portfolio Manager, Project Portfolio Manager, and the Sponsor whenever:

  1. A requirement changes.
  2. There is an ambiguity with the requirement.
  3. The requirement is too complex to support a common understanding..
  4. The requirement is a low-level requirement and has no test cases specified.