Collaborative BA project
Requirements and Project Foundations for a Consulting Initiative
OyaSync Consulting
- Role
- Requirements Analyst
- Period
- 2024 – Present
- Status
- Ongoing: discovery and requirements in progress
The business problem
My team needed a clearly defined business problem and a controlled project foundation before any detailed requirements or solution design work could responsibly begin.
Objective
I set out to produce the core project-foundation deliverables, identify stakeholders, separate facts from assumptions and establish a disciplined approach to elicitation and requirements.
Discovery
- Review of the documents already available to my team.
- Identification of what was known, what was assumed and what was missing.
- Preparation of stakeholder questions and validation points.
- Review of assumptions, constraints and early risks.
Analysis
- Business problem analysis and scope definition.
- Stakeholder analysis and requirement ownership.
- Information-gap assessment.
- Risk identification and success-measure definition.
Outcome
Roles, responsibilities and formal project documentation are established, and I am now working on the requirements. The project is ongoing; no final solution or measurable business result exists yet.
Business value
My work reduces the risk of designing a solution around assumptions or an incomplete view of stakeholder needs.
I have learned that requirements work has to separate confirmed facts from assumptions and name the person accountable for approval.
Working through a similar problem?
Tell me what is not working and I will tell you how I would approach the analysis.