How can we help our business stakeholders prioritize their requirements?

Your job as a business analyst is to help ensure that the right solution is delivered on time. This obviously requires that the project be highly organized and carefully scrutinized. Thus, helping the business stakeholders prioritize their requirements is a key part of the job.

Don't be surprised if your stakeholders insist that every one of their requirements is equally important, absolutely critical, and simply cannot be cut or changed. Many stakeholders will ask for the world, a habit that can be particularly disconcerting when multiple stakeholders compete over requirements that are mutually exclusive or can't remotely be delivered without missed deadlines. Your job as business analyst is to help everyone understand that there's a natural priority to the requirements, even theirs, and to help them understand what must come first, and why. Try the following time-tested prioritization tools:…

Log in or Subscribe now to read the full answer...