The IIBA webinar presented by LN Mishra focuses on the challenges of gathering critical non-functional requirements (NFRs) and the significant impact of missing these requirements on software projects, particularly in agile environments. Critical requirements can lead to project cancellation, and stakeholders often overlook them due to short-term goals or lack of understanding. Best practices suggested include making stakeholders aware of NFR implications, designing flexible alternatives, and creating comprehensive requirements templates and checklists.

1. IIBA Webinar on
How NOT to forget critical requirements.
LN Mishra, CBAP®, CPRE-FL®, CSM®
Principal Consultant and Trainer
Adaptive Processes Consulting
25-May-2016

2. What would we be discussing now
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1 Learn about critical requirements
Challenges in gathering NFRs
How to gather comprehensive NFRs
Best practices
Question and answers

3. Brief description about myself
• 22+ years of professional experience in
agile software development, requirements
analysis, business analysis, and GRC.
• Consulted 50+ clients including AkzoNobel,
PDO, Nordstrom, Toshiba, Ness, iGate,
Infosys etc.
• Delivered more than 10 systems
• Authored 8 books
• Consulted clients in 10 countries including
USA, Germany, Spain, UK, Singapore, Saudi
Arabia, Oman, Thailand, Philippines and
India.
LN Mishra
Partner @ Adaptive
CBAP from IIBA
CPRE from IREB
Alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad,
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Product Owner Certified
(SPOC)
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4. ERP implementation for a Fortune 100 client
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Trucks are in the warehouse and
our system has failed!

5. Among top 5 insurance providers in the world
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“Sorry team - we are cancelling the project as it
can’t be used in the entire Asian region.”
(After 3 years of development effort.)

6. Why so many software projects suffer so
much agony?

7. Somehow “Critical” requirements are missed
during requirements engineering activities.

8. Surprisingly, this is more likely to happen
in Agile mode of working.

9. What are “Critical” requirements?
• Requirements which when
MISSED can cause
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES to
projects including it’s
CANCELLATION.
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10. Typical “Critical” requirements
• Legal requirements.
• Non-functional requirements.
• Requirements from powerful
stakeholders.
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11. Why NFRs are “Critical” requirements?
• NFRs are likely to have much more
impact on application architecture
than functional requirements.
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12. Why NFRs are difficult to capture?
• To obtain right NFRs, stakeholder(s) must
have long term view of the application
– This is difficult and gets over-looked due to
short term project goals.
• NFRs increase application cost, so
stakeholders may ignore NFRs even if
they know the NFRs.
• Most stakeholders have very limited
understanding of NFRs.
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13. What can we do in such a situation?
• Make stakeholders aware the
implications of ignoring NFRs
• Design alternatives which allows us
the flexibility but not necessarily
incorporate all NFRs
• Create a comprehensive list of
NFRs
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14. Develop a comprehensive Checklist
for NFRs

15. What about other critical requirements?
• Design comprehensive
requirements templates
for high level and low
level requirements.
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16. Before I say thank you…

17. • World’s 1st integrated RE and BA
solutions organization.
• 200+ person-years consulting
experiences.
• 200+ Clients across the globe.
• More than 10 Fortune 500 clients.
• 200+ RE workshops completed in
India, US, Thailand, Philippines.
• 10+ International partners.
Recognitions
Partners
About Adaptive Processes
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18. Books published by Adaptive on BA
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19. Name : Adaptive Processes
Phone : 1-800-3070-2040
Email : Info@AdaptiveProcesses.com