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Creating a Business Requirements

Document
One of the most important documents that a Business Analyst can create is the Business
Requirements Document (BRD). The BRD is a key deliverable in defining a project’s
requirements. If your company does not have their own BRD template, you can use the
following example to design your own BRD. The order of the items listed below are not as
important as the content that you capture in your document.

BRD Table of Contents

Version Control
• Revision History
• RACI Chart

Executive Summary
• Overview
• Background
• Objectives
• Requirements
• Proposed Strategy

Production/Solution Scope
• Included in Scope
• Out of Scope
• Constraints

Business Case

Business Services and Processes

• Impact of proposed changes on business services and processes
• Business service and process overview diagrams
• Business process workflow requirements
• Business service level (non-functional) requirements

Stakeholders
• Stakeholder name
• Roles and Responsibilities

Actors
• Internal Users
• External Users
• Systems

Business Rules

State Diagrams

Requirements
• User Requirements

User Task Overview Diagram

User Task Descriptions

• IT Service Level (non-functional) requirements

• Business Requirements
 Business Goals
Business Needs

• Stake Holder Requirements

Stakeholder Goals
Stakeholder Needs

• System State Requirements

Testing State
Disabled State

• Static Model

Static Model: Diagrams

Multiplicity Rules Table
Entity Documentation

TRIPS
• TBD Items
• Risks
• Issues
• Pending Decisions
• Success factors

Test Plan
• Quality Assurance Responsibilities
• QA Standards and Guidelines
• Review and Audit Plan
• Quality Records
• Tools, Techniques, and Methodologies
• Testing Activities

Preparatory Activities
White-Box Testing
“Fit it for Purpose” Testing
Non-Functional Testing
User-Acceptance Testing

Deployment Plan
• Training
• Conversion
• Schedule of Jobs
• Rollout

End-User Procedures

Post-Implementation Follow-up

Other issues
External References

Glossary

Sign-off

Remember to always review the BRD and obtain the approval and sign-off from a sponsor,
delegate, or key stakeholder(s) before handing the document over to the next phase of the
project.

Download a Simple BRD (822)  or check out the template page for more BRD templates.

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Tagged with Analyst, BRD, Business, Business Requirements Document, Template.

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