Streamlining Business Requirements The XCellR8 Approach

Programming systems today are often designed and constructed before business requirements are completed and finalised. Without a proper foundation, these systems will eventually crumble. Streamlining Business Requirements: The XCellR8T Approach offers business analysts the foundation, principles, and steps they need to become effective facilitators in a world where gathering information is as important as the design and development of a system itself. Author Gerrie Caudle introduces a comprehensive framework to: - Gather and document business requirements accurately and effectively, - Ask the right questions of your users, document their responses properly, and formulate follow-up questions. - Facilitate a requirements session, validate business requirements, translate those requirements into functional specifications, and write test scenarios.

Gerrie Caudle is the President of Toshmar Systems Consulting Inc., an international consulting and training firm that specializes in business requirements gathering and process re-engineering. Gerrie specializes in cross-industry projects, having carried out assignments within government, financial services, transportation, resource, hospitality, manufacturing, retail, and distribution. She was a contributing member of the International Institute for Business Analysis (IIBA) and was instrumental in drafting the first body of knowledge on gathering business requirements.