Requirements Engineering 2.0

Your customers at the center of requirements

Requirements engineering refers to the structured process of capturing, analyzing, documenting and managing requirements for a product, service or system. This process forms the basis for creating solutions that meet the needs and expectations of users and stakeholders. Requirements engineering ensures that all functional and non-functional requirements are formulated clearly, unambiguously and feasibly. This enables you to manage your development processes efficiently and deliver high-quality results. A well thought-out requirements analysis and management is essential to minimize project risks and forms the basis for smooth communication between all parties involved. Why Requirements Engineering 2.0? Our requirements engineering consulting is up-to-date and uses the latest analysis and documentation technologies such as AI. Innovative and customer-centric methods are integrated into existing processes. This aims to optimize your processes in a targeted manner to ensure that developed solutions deliver the desired added value for your users and your company.

This is our approach in Requirements Engineering 2.0

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As-is analysis
We pick you up where you are: We start our collaboration by analyzing your current requirements culture. Our customized approach includes examining your existing roles, processes, & tool landscape to paint a complete picture of strengths and weaknesses. This allows us to focus on your corporate strategy and vision and develop recommendations for action to increase value.

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Target image for requirements process & strategy
Together with your team and stakeholders, we develop a coordinated target picture for the requirements that is oriented towards your overarching goals. From this, we derive a tailor-made requirements strategy. We also ensure that this approach is underpinned by a clearly structured action plan with defined milestones and measurable success criteria - in close consultation with your team, of course.

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Requirements management & optimization
We work on the identified requirements packages together with you, step by step. Our approach is iterative, learns from each phase and is therefore effective in sustainable implementation. This enables you to react flexibly to changing circumstances.

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Skills in requirements engineering
Our goal is to enable you to independently collect, manage and implement your requirements. By establishing tools, methods and guidelines, as well as through targeted training and coaching, we anchor these deeply in your organization so that you can act sustainably and independently in the long term.

Your contact person

Helen
Gebre Jocham
Principal and expert for Requirements Engineering 2.0
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Helen Gebre Ventum Consulting
"Good requirements engineering starts with listening and ends with solutions that really inspire users."

Helen Gebre Jocham, Ventum Consulting

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User Centered Requirements Engineering

User Centered Requirements Engineering (UCRE) is a special form of requirements engineering that focuses on the needs and expectations of end users. This method uses techniques from user experience, such as customer journey maps or personas, to elicit and document requirements from the user’s perspective. UCRE understands requirements engineering as a structured process to ensure that solutions are not only functional, but also find a high level of acceptance and satisfaction among end users and thus sustainably improve the user experience. This approach focuses on the early and continuous involvement of users and stakeholders to ensure a comprehensive understanding of their needs and thus support the development of products that offer real added value.

Customer journey management is an essential vehicle for UCRE. This approach visualizes and optimizes your customers’ interactions with your company systemically and holistically. From initial contact to after-sales. The overarching customer journey provides an overview of the main phases of the customer experience and is enriched with information from the organizational structure, the business and IT landscape through to the central business data objects that are created in your company. This high-level customer journey thus forms the ideal abstraction model from the status quo analysis to the target image visualization of your IT & business target architecture. When realizing the target image, you then successively detail customer group or product-specific customer journeys, thereby creating a controllable and comprehensible operationalization and planning tool at various levels of granularity.

Requirements engineering and user-centered requirements engineering (UCRE) are both aimed at creating high-quality products. However, the two approaches focus on different aspects: While classic requirements engineering focuses on capturing and managing functional, technical and regulatory requirements, UCRE places the user’s perspective at the center of the development processes. We will discuss with you where you would like to focus our consulting services.

Central elements of requirements engineering 2.0

Design thinking to secure innovation

Creativity and user-centricity drive our processes. Design thinking methods open up new perspectives on innovative solutions. We ensure the quality of requirements through iterative prototyping and early validation loops. The focus is on creating concrete solution ideas (MVPs) for dedicated personas and user journeys. As a methodical companion, we guide you through the design thinking process and ensure that the results are incorporated into the subsequent development phases in a structured manner. From the concrete idea, which can be worked out immediately and implemented promptly, to the item in the innovation backlog, which remains stored for later feature releases.

Holistic requirements analysis & documentation

We develop a detailed requirements profile for your projects. In doing so, we ensure detailed & high-quality requirements documentation that includes technical, regulatory, business-related as well as user & stakeholder-based requirements. The constant exchange with your teams and stakeholders ensures the continuous acceptance and validity of the requirements between all parties involved. We explicitly include data models, process analyses and software architecture and use AI-supported methods not only for analysis purposes but also to increase efficiency throughout the entire documentation & elicitation process. Nevertheless, we attach great importance to interpersonal exchange in interactive workshop formats and discussions. A link with agile rituals, values & practices is particularly value-creating at this point.

Process & tool excellence in requirements management

The structured recording and management of requirements is essential. Our consulting services support the implementation of efficient requirements processes by evaluating and prioritizing existing and new requirements in suitable tools and formats. We help you to create a clear and coordinated product backlog and ensure that your requirements can be systematically supported throughout their lifecycle. The right approach is just as important as the right choice of tools to optimally support your project goals.

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    FAQs on the topic of Requirements Engineering 2.0

    Requirements Engineering 2.0 is a modern approach to capturing, documenting and managing requirements. It combines classic methods with AI, agile processes and user-centered techniques such as design thinking and UCRE.

    Precise requirements analyses, clear strategies and an iterative approach minimize project risks, increase product quality and improve user satisfaction.

    UCRE places the needs of the end user at the center of the requirements analysis. Methods such as personas or customer journeys help to develop tailor-made solutions.

    Design thinking promotes creative idea development and user centricity. Through early prototyping and feedback loops, it facilitates a high level of fidelity to requirements and innovative strength.

    AI-supported analysis and documentation tools help to collect, structure and prioritize requirements more efficiently – without sacrificing human expertise.

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