About Technical Requirements

Technical requirements analysis begins with the business requirements documents created during the business analysis phase of the solution life cycle. Using the business analysis as a basis, you do the following:

• Perform a usage analysis to aid in determining expected load conditions.

• Create use cases that model typical user interaction with the system.

• Create a set of quality of service requirements (QoS) that define how a deployed solution must perform in areas such as response time, availability, security, and others.

The quality of service requirements are derived from the usage analysis and the use cases, keeping in mind business requirements and constraints previously identified. The quality of service requirements are later paired with logical architectures in the logical design phase to form a deployment scenario. The deployment scenario is the main input to the deployment design phase of the solution life cycle.

As with business analysis, no simple formula for technical requirements analysis exists that generates the usage analysis, use cases, and system requirements. Technical requirements analysis requires an understanding of the business domain, business objectives, and the underlying system technology.