Business Requirements Definition - in Brief

List of AIM Deliverables

Business Requirements Definition (RD)

RD.010 - Identify Financial and Operating Structure
In this task, the project team develops a complete picture of the organization’s financial and operating structure.

Deliverable
The deliverable for this task is the Financial and Operating Structure. This document portrays the legal entity structure, business organizations, financial operating environment, revenue (and/or cost) centers, and consolidation path. It may also catalog other business entities.

RD.020 - Conduct Current Business Baseline
In this task, the project team examines current processes and practices to identify how the existing business system meets current business requirements.
Deliverable
The deliverable for this task is the Current Business Baseline. It consists of the Current Business Process model, Process Questionnaires, and the Process Improvement and Redesign List. You may need to include other business process documentation as well.

RD.030 - Develop Future Process Model
This task defines the future business model in the form of integrated process flows built upon the business processes supported by the new applications. Identify the complete set of events to which the business function responds in order to meet its objectives, describe the future processes that the business performs in order to respond to each of the events, and identify each of the steps in those processes.
Deliverable
The deliverable for this task is the Future Process Model. It consists of the Event Catalog, Process Listing and Descriptions, and Process Flow Diagrams. Optionally, it may include Process Step Catalogs.

RD.040 - Develop Future Business Function Model
In this task you create a hierarchical model of the functions identified by the Future Process Model. This classification process assists you in checking the completeness of your future business process model You usually conduct this task in parallel with and in support of Develop Future Process Model (RD.030).
Deliverable
The deliverable for this task is the Future Business Function Model. The Future Business Function Model deliverable shows all the business functions arranged in a hierarchy diagram. It also specifies the data usage at each function.

RD.050 - Establish Process and Mapping Summary
During this task you create the repository for key project findings and decisions that occur during the implementation.
Deliverable
The deliverable for this task is the Process and Mapping Summary. It provides a single source of information on key implementation decisions for new project members and executive management. The Project Manager can also use it to maintain a status on the progress of deliverables in requirements definition through build and test.

RD.060 - Gather Business Volumes
In this task you research the current business volumes and estimate the future projected operational processing volumes, transaction patterns, and data storage volume requirements. This information provides the basis for determining the size and performance of the new production system.
Deliverable
The deliverable for this task is the Business Volume Requirements.

RD.070 - Create Business Requirements Scenarios
In this task you define detailed business requirements and perform an initial assessment of application fit to these requirements.
Deliverable
The deliverable for this task is the Business Requirements Scenarios (BRS). At least one BRS is created for each business process, linking requirements to process steps.

RD.080 - Determine Audit and Control Requirements
This task identifies the high levels and policies that affect business and system security, control, and procedures.
Deliverable
The deliverable for this task is the Audit and Control Requirements.

RD.090 - Identify Business Availability Requirements
This task identifies the business operating requirements that the operating functions and information systems functions agree are necessary to support the business processes. It also summarizes contingency situations the company must guard against and documents the approach to managing delay, failure, or other unexpected results that could imperil daily business operations.
Deliverable
The deliverable for this task is the Business Availability Requirements document.

RD.100 - Develop Reporting Requirements
In this task you develop the reporting requirements. Reports are typically outputs of business processes that are used as tools in support of business process operations.
Deliverable
The deliverable for this task is the Master Report Tracking List. It is the primary repository for all information collected about a report requirement. It should contain system and report name, business purpose, frequency, priority, user name and contact information.