Blueprint requirements Center 2010. An impressive requirements workbench.

1. Blueprint Requirements Center 2010
Terry Pritchard, Regional Director, Canada
terry.pritchard@blueprintsys.com
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2. VALUE OF REQUIREMENTS
Requirements define success
in all application projects
Effort
New Application
Application Application Modernization
Consolidation
Minor Minor
Release Release
Project Lifecycle
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3. ROLE OF THE REQUIREMENTS AUTHOR
• Author requirements documentation for
Software projects
• Validate requirements with stakeholders
• Communicate requirements to developers,
testers, and project managers
Effort
New Application
Application Application Modernization
Consolidation
Minor Minor
Release Release
Project Lifecycle
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4. AUTHORING CHALLENGE: SILO’D TOOLS
Textual User Interface Use Cases Glossaries Business
Lists Mockups Flows Process
Requirements Documents
• Business • Performance
Requirements Requirements
• Functional • Glossary of Terms
Requirements • Risk and Constraints
• Security • Specifications
Requirements • Traceability Matrix
Problems:
 Promotes inconsistencies and hides errors
 Lost context and lack of traceability
 Template focus vs. content quality and completeness
 Difficult collaboration via document reviews
 Managing change impossible
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5. FALSE VALIDATION AND REVIEW
Textual
Lists
User Interface
Mockups
Use Cases
Flows
Glossaries Business
Process ?
? ?
?
? Requirements Documents
• Business • Performance
Requirements Requirements
• Functional • Glossary of Terms
Requirements • Risk and Constraints
• Security • Specifications
Requirements • Traceability Matrix
Problems:
 Ambiguous, missing, conflicted requirements
 Difficult to read and understand
 Stakeholders are busy and don’t thoroughly read
 False validation and premature requirements signoff
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6. FALSE VALIDATION = POOR OUTCOMES
40% of project budgets are wasted due to
rework from poor requirements(1)
The problem is multiplied with distributed teams, outsourcing, and integrated
CIO/PMO application modernization projects.
Revision
Revision Rework Rework
MULTIPLE Rework
Revision
VERSIONS OF
THE TRUTH
Business Business
Reqs Design Dev QA UAT
Needs Application
Revision
Rework
Rework
Rework
Revision Rework Rework
Effort
Problems:
REWORK
REWORK
 Costly change and project rework
REWORK
Application
 Cycle time increases
New Application
Modernization
Application
Minor
Consolidation
Minor
Release
 Projects over budget
Release
Project Lifecycle  Inability to meet business needs
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7. BLUEPRINT INTRODUCTION
Blueprint provides the industry’s most complete requirements
workbench that empower all organizations to author, validate,
and communicate high-quality requirements.
Blueprint Process Blueprint Impact:
Author
 Improve business and IT alignment
Iterative
And Communicate  Reduce cycle time and project rework
Additive
Validate
 Lower delivery costs
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8. BLUEPRINT REQUIREMENTS CENTER 2010
Requirements Workbench
Author Collaborate
Multi-Aspect
Rich Text Requirements Actors Import/Export
Simulation
Process Traceability Comments Test Generation
Requirements Mgmt
Use Cases Glossaries Track Changes
Integration
Test Management
User Interface Data and Rules Document Generation
Integration
Blueprint Resource Center
Self-Training Videos Best Practices Knowledge Base Industry Resources Discussion Forum
Blueprint Team Repository
Version Control Security Notifications
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9. THE BLUEPRINT DIFFERENCE
A SINGLE VERSION OF THE TRUTH
1 Author
Requirements Lists UI Mockup Business Process Use Case
Editor Editor Glossaries Data and Rules
Diagrams Editor Editor
• Full Traceability
Blueprint
• Impact Analysis
Integrated
• Track Changes
Model
2 Validate 3 Communicate
Requirements Document, Specify
Simulation Generate Test
Scenarios
• Simulate All Requirements (UI, process, data) • Auto-generate Microsoft Office Documents
• Capture Feedback into System • Generate 100% of Functional Test Scenarios
• Track and Incorporate Changes • Integrated with ALM Solutions for Req Mgmt
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10. SUMMARY: REQUIREMENTS THAT WORK
Challenge Summary: What Blueprint Does.
Multiple Requirements Documents  Single Version of the Truth
Confusion and Misunderstanding  Multi Aspect Simulation
Changes are lost between Documents  Track Changes
Quality Assurance is not aligned  Generate Test Scenarios
Developers use ALM Tools  ALM Integrations
Effort
New Application
Application Application Modernization
Consolidation
Minor Minor
Release Release
Project Lifecycle
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11. BLUEPRINT EMPOWERS ALL ORGANIZATIONS
Centralized
Department
BENEFIT
Competitive Advantage
Project Based BENEFIT
Team Productivity • IT Organizations standardize
on Blueprint and deliver all
BENEFIT • Departments standardize on requirements definition
Individual Productivity Blueprint. through a center of
excellence.
• Software projects are • All department requirements
authored, validated, and are visualized through • All business/IT requirements
Ad-hoc communicated through simulation. are visualized through
Blueprint simulation.
• Department benefits from
• MS Word, Excel, • Project requirements are
PowerPoint, Visio visualized through simulation
standards, requirements
reuse, and expertise
ROI
• Company wide standards.
leveraged efficiency.
• Project test scenarios are used
• 1st Generation RM
by QA, requirements
tools used
documents are generated.
• GUI Prototype tools
may be used.
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12. CASE STUDIES
Challenge
The scale and complexity of IT projects increased dramatically due to
business expansion, and paper-based requirements were resulting is
increased rework, waste.
Business Value
Requirements authors centralized and empowered to deliver a
competitive advantage. All requirements (including use cases, UI Watch Video:
mockups, lists) are visualized to ensure understanding. Result: Agile http://blueprintsys.com/customers.php
requirements, faster cycle-time, less rework.
Challenge
Under pressure to standardize requirements practices for upcoming application modernization projects,
Merck was looking to create central system-of-record for all requirements assets.
Business Value
Merck now has standard processes for Six Sigma certification and all requirements are defined within
Blueprint Requirements Center. Merck uses the Blueprint + HP Integration to ensure IT and QA teams
test the right functionality: Result: Standardized requirements to reduce error and control costs,
tight integration with existing ALM process and solutions.
Challenge
Requirements error, ambiguity, and inconsistency were resulting in rising
costs of IT projects and delaying delivery of systems critical to cruise line
operations.
Business Value
After an exhaustive search of all requirements definition options,
Carnival selected Blueprint to define, simulate, and communicate all
requirements Result: Better requirements with more stakeholder
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involvement -- and the most successful IT project in history.
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13. CUSTOMER SUCCESS

14. MORE INFORMATION
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Demonstration Testimonials
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Whitepapers Interoperability
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distributed teams, outsourcing, application modernization, less integration and interoperability. Watch videos on how
building a center-of-excellence, the rework tax, and more. the solutions work together.
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Solution Visit
Video Overviews Requirements.net
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outsourced teams, and distributed organizations improvement. Download Podcasts, whitepapers, more.
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