Business Requirements are requirements of an organization or customer for a product, service, or system. They express what is required thus they achieving a specific objective. They don’t say how to do it, how to achieve it.
How do business requirements look like in practice?
It is usually a set of needs that initiate a new product, process or somehow change it. They usually take the form of a very brief document or even a few brief points. The document is sometimes referred to as BRD (Business Requirements Document) or is being elaborated into Business Case. Business requirements usually arise from strategic decisions, market demands, customers or as a feedback form operations. Business requirements can arose from any stakeholder. They always relate to the company’s vision and corporate goals - it must therefore contain a specific need that is based on the company’s goals.
This implies that business requirements are formulated at a very high level of the organization and therefore need to be further broken down, typically by Functional Requirements or by using the task decomposition.
Business requirements assess the impacts and financial demands. Approved business requirements are then further elaborated on functional, product or user requirements. These are implemented afterwards most often in the form of projects.
Examples of business requirements
- Automation approval for holidays in ERP system
- XY Distribution Network Capacity Enhancement