Business Requirements Template (Word)

Use this Business Requirements Specification template (MS Word 24 pages) to capture the current and future needs of your business.

Business Analysts use this to captures WHAT is required so that Software Developers then take these requirements and determine HOW these needs are to be met. This template pack includes a 24-page Business Requirements Specification, Use Case, Requirements Traceability Matrix and Data Model templates in Microsoft Word, Excel and Visio.

BRS Template: Table of Contents

The MS Word template contains the following sections.

1 Introduction
1.1 Business Requirements Summary
1.2 Organization Profile
1.3 Scope
1.4 Cost Benefit Analysis
1.5 Accountability to Sponsors
1.6 Assumptions
1.7 Constraints
1.8 Dependencies

2 General Business Requirements
2.1 Product Perspective
2.2 General Requirements
2.3 User Characteristics

3 Business Requirements
3.1 Business Requirement
3.2 Business Requirement
3.3 Business Requirement

4 Business Process Model
4.1 Process Descriptions
4.2 Events
4.3 Use Case

5 Business Data Model
5.1 Data Models
5.2 Data Descriptions

6 Non-Functional Requirements
6.1 Accuracy
6.2 Audit Trail
6.3 Availability
6.4 Capacity Limits
6.5 Data Retention
6.6 Operational Requirements
6.7 Performance
6.8 Recoverability
6.9 Security Requirements
6.10 Timing

7 Improvements and Impacts
7.1 Improvements to Existing Capabilities
7.2 Impacts
7.2.1 User Impacts
7.2.2 Operational Impacts

8 Glossary

Contents

These templates are in Microsoft Word, Excel and Visio formats.

The template pack includes the following documents:

• 2 x Business Requirements Specification Templates (24 pages)
• 1 x Requirements Traceability Matrix 6 pages
• 1 x Data Model diagram
• 3 x Use Case diagrams
• 1 x Business Requirements worksheet
• 1 x Data Model worksheet

Product Specifications

• File Format: The templates are in Microsoft Word (.docx) and Excel format (.xlsx).
• File Size: The Download file is 2 MBs.
• Opening the Files: You don’t need any special software to unzip the files. To unzip the files, right click on it, then select Extract, and save it to your computer.
• Getting Started: Depending on your MS Office settings, the files may say Read Only when you open them. If this occurs, click File, Save As and save the files. There are no security settings on any of the files.
• Images: All of the images in the templates are copyright free.