Requirements Package: Top 50+ list

Have you ever been asked to produce a Requirements Package and wanted to know what to put in it?

Here is a list of items that can be used when creating a Requirements Package:

  • Appendix
  • Approvals and sign-offs
  • Approved Abbreviations and Acronyms
  • Assumptions
  • Attributes
  • Business information Requirements
  • Business Process Requirements
  • Business Requirements
  • Business Risk
  • Business Rules
  • Change Control Form
  • Change Control Process
  • Context level data flow diagram (DFD)
  • Design Phases
  • Entities
  • Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)
  • Essential process details
  • Essential processes
  • External interactions
  • Flow charts and other diagrams
  • Functional Requirements
  • Functional Requirements Phase #
  • Glossary
  • High-level process
  • Initial Design Plan
  • Items out of scope
  • Outstanding Questions
  • Pending Decisions
  • Performance Requirements
  • Project approach or methodology
  • Project assumptions
  • Project Initiation Documentation
  • Project objectives
  • Project problems/opportunities
  • Project scope
  • Project stakeholders
  • Project statement of purpose
  • Quality Requirements
  • Relationships (Data related Business Rules)
  • Requirements rules/guidelines
  • Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • Revision Log
  • Risk and Issues
  • Security Requirements
  • System Functionality
  • System Use Case description – Use Case name
  • System Use Case list
  • Technical Requirements
  • To BE Determined items (TBD)
  • Use Case Diagram Phase #
  • User Classes/Actors
  • User interface Requirements
  • Valid values/Default values
  • Workflows

By Morgan

CBAP and PMI-ACP with over 20 years of Project management and Business Analysis experience.