Business requirement document is a solution for the project as per the customer needs and requirement. It includes the purpose of starting the project, what business solution does it provides, the purpose behind doing this project and talks about features,functionalities and timeline of completion.
Before the commencement of the project,there is a lot of research that takes place into mapping out its overall structure,requirements,features,limitations and more. This is why managers start their project development with the business requirement document.
Why business requirement document is important?
The pupose of a business requirement document is to give a complete picture of a document or new business plan,so everyone must be clear on what must be done and when.
Abusiness requirement document can be considered as a two phases:In the first phase of the project, it is document that sets out all the requirements for the project,including costs,details on implementation,projected benefits,milesstones and maily the timeline for the implementation.
In the second phase, the BRD actually can become a contract between the two parties,formally setting out the requirements of the hiring company and the contractor doing the work.
What should be included in the business requirement document?
1.Table of contents: List of contents in the document.
2.Summary/Overview: This is sometimes called an excutive summary,which outlines the project requirements in general. The summary statement is usually written after the BRD is complete.
3.Business objectives: The objective should be SMART format. Specific,measurable,attainable,realistic and time bound.
4.Scope of the project: What is to be included and what is not be included.
5.Proposed system: – to be : This is mainly identification of need of the project and covers all the features and possibilities.
6.Non fuctional requirements: In this area the details will be there about the performance for example response time,utilization,scalability,capacity,reliability,maintainability.
7.Assumptions: This part of the document is often overlooked.Spelling out assumptions helps avoid problem later.
8.Limitations : The business analyst is responsible for documenting any restrictions or limitations to the solution design,construction,testing,validation and deployment.
9.Risks: The risk that could affect the success or failure of the project. Analyse the risk regularly as the project progresses.While we may not avoid the risk, but can limit the each risk’s impact on the project by preparing for it beforehand.
10.Glossary of terms: In this section we can mention the list of terms in a special subject, field, area of usage, with accompanying definitions. For example mentioned about Agile project management method and down time for application non availability for use time.