Brief Overview - Business Requirements Document - with Sample Document

This video walks you through a typical IT Business Requirements Document (BRD) page-by-page to assist you in understanding why business requirements are the most critical element in the various steps in application development and also to understand the individual elements of a professionally-developed BRD.

The business sponsor and key stakeholders have a vision for the purpose and contents of an application. But often, since they are not IT people, they rarely have thought out all the elements that must be investigated to provide a complete picture of what will go into the application.

The business requirements provide the vehicle to capture all those elements. IT people meet with the project sponsor and ask a boatload of questions. IT must consider what will be included, will the application be developed in phases, what interfaces must be applied, what are the inherent risks or issues confronting IT, and many more questions?