Trawling for business requirements

Scope, Stakeholders, Goals

The Scope basically includes the information the people who do it, influence it, or know about it; and the outcome that those people are trying to achieve.Most projects start with scope, but it is not obligatory—you use whatever information is to hand first.

The next part of three-folds is Stakeholders. Stakeholders include anyone with an interest in, or an effect on, the outcome of the product. The owner is the most obvious stakeholder, other than that the consumers of the product are also the stakeholders they have an interest in having a product that does their work correctly.

Then the Goal can be defined as anything that a company desires to achieve rather its monetary or a physical goal. It is also important for the employees of the company so that they know what they need to achieve.

Difference between Sponsor and a customer

Sponsor is the person who pays for the product. On the simple basis that “money talks,” the sponsor, by paying for the development, has the final say in what that product does, how it does it, and how elaborate or how sparse it must be. In other words, the sponsor is the ultimate arbiter of which product will yield the optimal value.

Customer is the person who buys the product once it is ready to use. company needs to produce something valuable for their customers so that they can buy the products for their own use or for others.

Business Use Case

It is basically an external view of the situation. It consists scenarios for discussing the current and future situations of the company with the stakeholders of the company. Also, the case includes the approach used in the project i.e. rabbit, horse or elephant approach. 

Product Use Case

To make the product use case we need to have the business use case first.Because product use case is derived through business use case, so they both are quiet similar. The PUC describes the functionality of the product. The part of the BUC that the customers or the stakeholders agree will be carried forward to make an end product.

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Scenarios
It is basically a written outline or template of the activities to be performed. A template may include:

• Business event
• BUC name and event
• Trigger
• Preconditions
• Interested stakeholders
• Active stakeholders
• Normal case
• Alternatives
• Exception steps
• Outcome.