The traditional disconnect between IT and the Business continues to challenge organizations. It’s particularly troublesome on software development projects, because business analysts and their business partners must be on the same page to define high-quality requirements that prevent costly project rework. They have to have a common understanding.
The traditional text-heavy business requirements document, or BRD, doesn’t help. It’s lengthy, text-heavy, and difficult to digest, overwhelming business stakeholders who have too little time with too much information.
To develop a common understanding, business stakeholders need an easy way to share, analyze, and collaborate on information in a format that works for them. Unfortunately, this is hard to accomplish.
A Requirements Tool Can Help, But Only So Much
The implementation of a requirements tool shared by business analysts and their business stakeholders has the potential to ease collaboration, but barriers still exist.
Busy business stakeholders are reluctant to spend time learning a new tool, particularly one they use infrequently. While business analysts use Blueprint daily, their business partners don’t, making it more cumbersome for them to use than it should be.
For the most efficient, effective collaboration, business stakeholders need the ability to easily review them and provide input in an environment that is familiar and intuitive.
How Blueprint Eases Requirements Review and Approval
That’s why Blueprint developed a new feature called Rapid Review. When a requirements team needs stakeholder input, it can create a package of requirements artifacts from a Blueprint collection. Stakeholders are automatically notified and can access the requirements in Blueprint or a web browser, on a PC or tablet. This valuable feature:
- Provides product owners and business analysts an efficient way to present requirements artifacts to business stakeholders and obtain their feedback quickly and easily.
- Gives business stakeholders the ability to view all the information-rich requirements content from Blueprint in a format that has the familiar look and feel of a requirements document.
- Allows stakeholders to receive only the requirements relevant to them, streamlining the review process.
- Maintains Blueprint’s relationships, enabling stakeholders to quickly navigate among artifacts to gain a more holistic understanding of requirements in context.
- Allows stakeholders to collaborate on requirements instantly via discussions.
- Supports a lightweight approval method suitable for Agile environments.
The Bottom Line for Project Teams
Rapid Review addresses the pain points of busy stakeholders who need to review requirements assets and provide feedback quickly and easily. It simplifies the feedback process, while supporting robust collaboration among business analysts and business stakeholders.
Let us show you how Rapid Review allows organizations to maximize the value they get from Blueprint by transforming the requirements review process. For more information or a product demo, contact us today.
