 
The industry’s first solution for Requirements Elicitation
Blueprint Requirements Center 2009’s elicitation module was designed in partnership with dozens of business analysts throughout all industry verticals. Through this partnership, Blueprint identified the need for a new kind of software requirements solution, built for the early stages of collaboration with the line of business and IT.
Rapid requirements capture – from the start
Elicitation involves interviews, JAD sessions, brainstorming workshops, and many other interactive events. Frantically jotting down items in a notebook only to later transcribe them into a requirements tool or document is inefficient and error-prone. Blueprint Requirements Center’s new elicitation module is designed to be used right from the beginning of requirements elicitation letting you rapidly capture and categorize information so nothing is missed. In elicitation, requirements concepts are captured in an Excel-like list, with customizable fields, unique identifiers, threaded comments, and robust search and sorting. All elements in the elicitation module are managed under version control and configuration management through integration with the Blueprint Definition Server.
Inline Glossaries
Ensuring business analyst teams are leveraging a common language and vocabulary is critical when building alignment and consensus between business and IT. When we’re dealing with requirements capture and elicitation, language mistakes can turn out to be very expensive when they’re discovered after something’s been built. Blueprint Requirements Center allows you to create multiple glossaries of terms that exist alongside the requirements being captured. You can have a company-wide glossary of terms, one for the department, and another for terms used on a specific project. This ensures all are speaking the same language, and removes many costly errors.
Capture all relevant information – regardless of the source
Blueprint understands that the early stage of requirements elicitation requires the use and re-use of existing documentation in multiple formats. (ie: These formats include emails, pdf documents, other applications, spreadsheets, and a multitude of other media.) Blueprint Requirements Center provides several means to capture and represent this disparate information. This can be project charter or vision documents, standards and guidelines that you need to adhere to, or screenshots of existing applications, etc. Blueprint Requirements Center lets you bring these references materials into a Requirements Project and lets you view & analyze them in their native applications embedded within Blueprint Requirements Center (example: MS Word, MS Excel, pdf, html, GIF, JPG, TIFF etc.). From that point forward whether you’re simulating requirements, viewing auto-generated tests, or generating documents automatically, these references are propagated and made available to users.
Proceed to the Elaboration phase of the requirements definition lifecycle.
The industry’s first solution for Requirements Elaboration
Blueprint Requirements Center 2009’s elaboration module is designed to automate the intense activity of requirements analysis and elaboration. By providing the business analyst with advanced solutions for defining and modeling requirements meta-data such as use-cases, rich user-interface layouts, business data, business rules, and roles and actors, business analysts have the tool sets they need to describe requirements concepts in clear and precise terms.
Reusable requirements “components”
Blueprint Requirements Center treats requirements as “components” which provides many benefits. You can have a team of Business Analysts work collaboratively on the requirements by working on different components and then “assembling” them to produce an overall model of the application to be built. Requirements components are the basis of reuse – they can be reused within the same project or across projects.
Express process, user interfaces, data, business rules
Blueprint offers the most complete solution set for defining rich requirements assets. Blueprint provides a multi-aspect approach to requirements definition, giving analyst teams optional solutions to define the user interface, data rules, relationships, business rules, as well as business process data. Blueprint understands that there are many aspects to software requirements and while certain aspects may be more important for the different types of applications, all aspects need to be consider to precisely specify what is to be built. Blueprint Requirements Center is the only solution designed to define all requirements aspects.
The Next Generation of Requirements Traceability
Blueprint understands the need for change-impact and asset traceability, and we offer the industry’s first bi-directional traceability explorer for requirements assets. Blueprint Requirements Center lets you quickly identify the scope of impact for a requirements change and, just as important, know with confidence what will not be impacted. It provides the means to graphically communicate to stakeholders the consequences of their request and is the basis for making a sound business case to either proceed with or reject the change.
Define Requirements collaboratively with distributed teams
Whether your project teams are distributed around the globe or down the hall, Blueprint Definition Server brings everyone together. It provides the security, versioning, baselining, and distributed access needed to define and develop applications in today’s distributed world.
Proceed to the Validation phase of the requirements definition lifecycle.
The industry’s first solution for Requirements Validation
Blueprint Requirements Center 2009’s validation module is designed to provide analysts the toolsets they need to work with stakeholders to validate that requirements are complete, they are understood, and they are feasible to be implemented by IT. Through patented simulations and a collaborative sign-off system, Blueprint facilitates structured feedback sessions for the requirements authors.
Generate end-to-end process workflows automatically
Blueprint Requirements Center automatically generates end-to-end workflow diagrams, instantly. These assets are always up to date, accurate, and they are linked to rich requirements meta-data. Unlike previous generation approaches, Blueprint does not require analysts to manually describe workflows or decision points, the system will understand this directly from the model.
Instant Access to all relevant information
Blueprint Requirements Center simulations let you take vast quantities of information and let you navigate through it with ease and clarity. It consolidates all pertinent information and makes it instantly accessible right at the point where it's relevant.
Simulate Legacy applications, Web applications, Packaged applications...
Essentially any type of software application can be modeled and simulated using Blueprint Requirements Center. This includes “reverse engineering” of legacy applications, new or ongoing enhancements to web applications, or modeling requirements for the upgrade of packaged applications, or even back-end processing and algorithmic-intensive software. Perhaps most valuable is Requirements Center’s ability to model & simulate combinations of these types of applications.
Capture feedback in Blueprint Discussions
Sometimes it's the hall-way and water-cooler discussions that turn out to be the most valuable. Blueprint Requirements Center lets you have and record those discussions right alongside the requirements. Distributed teams can comment and debate about requirements, Use Cases, GUI wireframes, business rules, and more with all this interaction being recorded alongside the object being discussed.
Proceed to the Acceptance phase of the requirements definition lifecycle.
The industry’s first solution for Requirements Acceptance
Blueprint Requirements Center 2009’s Acceptance module was designed in partnership with many industry standards organizations. With the Acceptance module, analyst teams are able to finalize the project requirements and generate IT assets to ensure understanding and alignment.
Baseline your accepted requirements
Through an integration with the Blueprint Definition Server, the Blueprint Acceptance module lets you create a “baseline” of the project’s requirements as often as you need - for major reviews or project milestones, or to serve as a contract with outsourcing partners.
Generate custom Microsoft Office Documents
Documents that adhere precisely to your company’s standards are automatically generated from Blueprint Requirements Center. Analyst teams can start with one of the many document templates provided with Blueprint Requirements Center or create they can create their own template to generate your company-standard document.
Auto-populate Test Management solutions
Blueprint Requirements Center lets you automatically generate a comprehensive set of tests that cover 100% of the defined requirements, and then “Blueprint” those tests along with the requirements to HP Quality Center. This represents the automation of a huge portion of test preparation work that is normally done manually which is expensive, time-consuming, and often fraught with error.
Auto-populate Requirements Management tools
While today’s requirements management tools are very capable, they’re only as good as the quality of the information you enter into them. Blueprint Requirements Center lets you automatically populate Requirements Management tools with a complete set of high-quality requirements and their inter-relationships.
Auto-populate UML Design solutions
Blueprint Requirements Center lets you automatically populate UML Design solutions with the requirements you’ve defined. All the Use Case graphical and textual content is transitioned to the UML Design tool along with an activity diagram illustrating the details of every Use Case, generated automatically. UML Design tools supported include those from IBM-Rational (Rose), Borland (Together), and Sparx Systems (Enterprise Architect).
Publish to the Web
For those who don’t have ALM tools, or who simply want to communicate with a wider audience, Blueprint Requirements Center can instantly create an intranet website containing all requirements, Use Cases, Data, GUI mockups, tests, workflow diagrams, hyperlinked reference materials and more, all inter-related and connected through hyperlinks.
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