Analyses Complete Milestone

Definition

Analyses complete is the second business strategy phase milestone by which time the various analyses are to be complete and evaluated.

Objectives

The typical objectives of this milestone include:

• The customer organization has been analyzed.
• The marketplace and competitor organizations have been analyzed.
• Revalent technologies and their trends have been analyzed.
• The user organization(s) have been analyzed.

Tasks Accomplished

The following tasks are typically accomplished by the development organization prior to this milestone:

• Requirements Engineering Tasks:
  • Requirements Reuse:
    • Reuse results of customer analysis (e.g., from previous project).
    • Reuse results of market analysis.
    • Reuse results of technology analysis.
    • Reuse results of user analysis.
  • Requirements Analysis:
    • Perform use case modeling of the customer organization.
    • Perform object modeling of the customer organization.
    • Perform process modeling of the customer organization's current business processes.
    • Profile customer stakeholders.
    • Analyze technologies for relevance and trends.
    • Profile users.
    • Analyze user tasks.
  • Requirements Specification:
    • Specify the results of the customer analysis.
    • Specify the results of the market analysis.
    • Specify the results of the technology analysis.
    • Specify the results of the user analysis.

Work Products Delivered

The following work products are typically delivered to the customer organization at or before this milestone:

• Requirements Set:
  • Actor Card
  • Use Case Card
  • Class Responsibility Collaborator (CRC) Card
  • Customer Stakeholder Profile
  • Customer Analysis
  • Competitor Profile
  • Market Analysis
  • Technology Analysis
  • User Profile
  • User-Task Matrix
  • User Analysis

Guidelines

• Only use this milestone in conjuntion with the business strategy phase of a project.