Tag: business requirements
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Best approach for gathering ERP requirements
How You Gather Requirements Sends a Message! Let’s us go through an analogy together. You are the customer and I am the consultant working with you to develop some software changes for your packaged software. As the consultant I can take two approaches for gathering requirements: Option #1: “What would you like?” An open-ended question…
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Embrace Changing Requirements for ERP Implementations
Business is Changing! Don’t Fight it – Embrace It! A key challenge with any ERP implementation is changing business requirements. Yet many project teams are surprised when business requirements change. Think about it, the scope of an ERP implementation is based upon a “point in time” solution. Competitive business models are constantly evolving to meet…
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Reverse Engineer to Business Requirements
A critical activity for any ERP implementation is gathering business requirements. The purpose of business requirements is to define the needs that will enable business activities to generate business results. The traditional school of thought is that if we capture all the requirements then we assume that we will develop a solution that will produce…