Objectives and Requirements Example
Our example is based on the purchasing process of a company whose activity is boat rental and cruise sales. We wish to develop the system to take into account urgent purchase requests.
The project of evolution of an application supporting the processing of urgent purchase requests has several objectives:
• From a functional viewpoint, this application must ensure reduction in boat immobilization time due to a spare part requirement. Purchase request processing must therefore be accessible 24 hours a day, since company representation offices are spread over several continents, and 7 days a week since the company activity is leisure and tourism.
• To reduce delays in the search for suppliers of spare parts already referenced or not, the purchasing department has decided to set up a product catalog and a centralized supplier database.
• The project also meets a technical objective, which is to modernize and improve security of communications between company headquarters and the representation offices.
In this example, the project meets the quantitative objective of reduction in boat immobilzation time, and the qualitative objectives of improvement in the communication system on the one hand and the management of suppliers on the other.
These objectives are linked to technical or system requirements, such as 24/24 and 7/7 access to the process urgent purchase request application.
