Business Transformation Projects

Abstract

The role of requirements engineering (RoRE) is central for the implementation of projects in general and is especially crucial for business transformation projects (or simply projects) because transformation activities incur major changes in the existing sets of archaically defined requirements. Requirements engineering (RE) is a complex part of the project because it consists of many related communication, cross-functional knowledge, and dependencies, like the need for RE to interact with executive management, business users, business architects, implementation developers, and other project actors. In this chapter, the authors will try to propose an RoRE concept (RoREC) that can support project managers (or simply managers) in transforming the enterprise and managing RE activities. RE activities are not just about assembling a huge set of business and non-functional requests and features in the form of document(s) and delivering a repository of methodology-based diagram(s).