360 Definition
The major differentiator in inteGREAT™ is its ability to provide
a company with a holistic view of its business requirements . It does
this through identifying and addressing the 10 key dimensions of any project
as shown below:
Strategy
The strategy dimension allows you to envision your projects, goals, and objectives allowing you to define the “purpose of the project”. You can also specify success criteria or measurement criteria for each of your goals and objectives.
Requirements
In the Requirements dimension, you can define your functional as well as non-functional requirements and associate constraints, assumptions, and dependencies. Requirements can be extended to drive use cases, business rules, data and actors. inteGREAT allows users to cope with requirements management by maintaining lists, hierarchies, or networks.
Data
In the data dimension you can define your business object model, tables, and associated attributes. You can even detail properties for tables and attributes. Data can be managed and mapped to the user interface, processes, people, and requirements in general.
Process
The process dimension allows you to define business and software processes, activities, scenarios and their flow along with outcomes. You can define and customize the User Interface and navigation
Network
A network dimension refers to a connected group of components that work together to meet system requirements. Network definition includes hardware, software, operating environments and servers. Network systems can also exist within other larger networks.
People
In the people dimension you define internal and external Organizations, Actors, and Audience, linked to the requirements. Here you can relate people to processes, objectives, scenarios, and data.
Events
In the event dimension, you can define any business milestone, process triggers and schedules that are associated with the project requirements.
Artifacts
Define documents, forms and reports that are required in your business and how they fit into the IT solution.
Risk
The Risk dimension, allows you to foresee risks, estimate their impact in terms of severity and priority, in order to determine mitigation and identify contingencies. Risks are derived out of the strategy, data and process dimensions and are assigned to the people dimension.
Business Rules
Developing a business rules catalog is extremely important for any business yet is generally done very poorly. Business rules describe the operations, definitions and constraints that apply to an organization in achieving its goals.
