In this blog post ,  I would like to explain

• What are Requirements
• what is Requirement Hierarchy
• How do you create Requirements
• How do you Track Requirements

so lets get started

What are Requirements

Requirements are expectations from Business that need to be fulfilled. They are typically collected as part of Fit-to-standard workshops. Requirements can call into multiple workstreams such as Standard configuration , Extensibility , Analytics .

Also requirements can vary in size and complexity. Some of the requirements may need approval to proceed but some requirements which are business as usual are sent to development without any explicit approval

What is Requirement Hierarchy

A Requirement can be broken down into smaller units such as Project tasks and user stories. Even though Project tasks and user stories behave very similarly , we recommend that you use Project tasks for collaboration and clarifications and user stories for smaller definitions of Requirements from user perspective. These Project tasks and user stories can be further broken down into sub-tasks

So your Hierarchy should look like

• Requirement
  • Project Task
    • Sub-task 1
    • Sub-task 2
  • User story 1
    • Sub-task 1
    • sub-task 2
  • User story 2
    • Sub-task 1

Please note that decomposition of a Requirement into Project tasks or user stories is optional.

The best way to view the Hierarchy is using the Gantt chart control in Requirements app

How do you create Requirements

You can create requirements in various ways

• From a Solution process

The recommended way to create Requirement is using the Solution process diagram so that the process context is automatically captured in the Requirement

later you can use the solution process information to filter the requirements easily.

• Manually using the Requirements app

You can just create a Requirement using the create option in the Requirements app

• Mass Upload via an Excel Sheet

you can download the template

and modify the template to upload requirements along with its children. As an example you can modify the template to look like

Please note the Parent row column should reflect the row in Excel sheet correctly.

Once you upload , you get results like

if you want to see them in a Hierarchy , you need to switch to Gantt view

How do you track Requirements

In the Overview Page there are multiple cards which help you track requirements by status, by scope or by workstreams

also in the Analytics app , there is a chart called Requirement Traceability which helps you decide when to change the status of a Requirement

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Next Steps

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