Documenting and Managing Requirements

While investigations into the Organizational structure, business processes, rules, and project artifacts provide a foundational understanding of the business problem or opportunity that the project was created to address, it is an analysis that is constrained to a single perspective – that of the analyst. Business users and other project stakeholders provide verification that the requirements are correct and they also provide previously unidentified requirements that are not necessarily found in organizational documents, process analysis, or other method. Gathering these types of requirements requires communications, involving interviews, surveys, and Requirements Gathering sessions. 

Reconciling and incorporating the multiple perspectives of users and stakeholders is an important BA activity.