Carol Martinez is a business analyst for Forward, Inc. She captures a set of high-level business requirements from Marketing regarding a business analytics system. Carol enters the high-level requirements in Product Vision, where they are displayed in the list view.
The high-level requirements from Marketing are not broken into manageable work units that the IT department can use to make system modifications. Carol must break the high-level requirements into smaller child requirements that describe the specific features and changes needed in the current system.
Carol selects a category type of Business Requirement for the high-level requirements, and for the child requirements under each high-level requirement, she selects the category of Technical Requirements. The requirement categories were set up by her system administrator and are specific to Forward, Inc. By selecting different categories for the parent and children, Carol can sort the requirements on the list page by category, or print the requirements separately by category.
Each of the requirements is also associated with Forward, Inc. Marketing as the source. Marketing personnel can then view the requirements from the Marketing source and check that the requirements are being fulfilled.
Carol finds that she needs multiple levels to completely break down the high-level requirements into basic requirements . To do this, she creates children under the appropriate child requirements until she has reached the basic requirement level. The final result of Carol's deconstruction of the high-level requirements into child requirements is a requirement tree with five levels of child requirements. Once Carol's deconstruction is complete, the IT department assesses whether the requirements can be accomplished using the current system or whether an RFP process to bring in a new system is necessary.
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