Business Alignment - Working with Requirements

Many IT projects fail.  An insufficient understanding of the requirements that are driving the project causes most of these failures.  Lack of understanding can have many causes – lack of communication with the user community is a common fault.  Select Perspective, the incremental, iterative software development process from Select Business Solutions, has always emphasized the importance of gaining and maintaining a very clear view of the project requirement – of achieving alignment with the business need.  Business Alignment is one of the core consume-side workflows that must be executed in a Perspective-based project.

This document describes the approach to modeling requirements adopted by projects that use Select Perspective. Leveraging UML as its core notation, Select Perspective extends the reach of UML by adding explicit support for Business Process Modeling (BPM) – an aid to achieving a shared understanding of the business context within which the solutions will operate. It also explicitly recognizes the different types of requirement that project teams have to take into account.