Authoring Technical Requirements

Overview

Translate business specifications into three traceable analysis artifacts: requirements, constraints-and-decisions, and NFRs. Every artifact traces to a business source. Every target is measurable. Every constraint accounts for its design impact.

Violating the letter of the rules is violating the spirit of the rules.

When to Use

• Translating functional requirements into technical requirements (TR-XXX)
• Documenting hard technical constraints (C-XXX)
• Defining measurable non-functional requirements (NFR-XXX)
• Cataloguing external system integrations (INT-XXX)
• Classifying data elements by sensitivity level (DS-XXX)
• Quality gate before architectural design begins

When NOT to Use