Purpose

This tool mentor describes how to use Rational RequisitePro to record the results of finding business goals.

Overview

To record the results of finding business actors and business use cases using Rational RequisitePro:

1. Create a Business Goal requirements type
2. Capture Goals and Sub-Goals
3. Trace relationships between Goals and Business Use Cases

1. Create the Business Goal requirements type

While it is usual to think of RequisitePro as only managing requirements, it has been successfully used in managing a collection of business goals. To do so, we add a new requirement type for a business goal and use requirement attributes to capture KPI values. The following diagram shows RequisitePro managing a set of business goals.

The specific attributes used to capture KPI and metric values are project specific, the creation of a new requirement type is documented in the RequisitePro help.

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2. Capture Goals and Sub-Goals

RequisitePro supports the hierarchical specification of requirements, this hierarchy is used to denote goals and sub-goals. RequisitePro also, by default, will provide a hierarchical numbering schema as shown above. Unlike the UML solution where a class diagram is used to capture goals and their relationships the use of RequisitePro provides a more fixed hierarchy.

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3. Trace relationships between Goals and Business Use Cases