All of us realize the value of re-use. Re-use saves cost and improves quality. But when it comes to reusing requirements, I hardly hear any organization making a planned effort to re-use requirements.
In this regard, I felt, let us start with set of requirements which are highly likely to be re-used. If we can identify them and catalog them, we can definitely find projects which would have implemented them.
So in future, when we encounter such requirements, we simply refer to our catalog. I started and enumerated 25 common requirements that I came across as a BA. I would urge my fellow BAs to update the list. Once we hit 100, we do have a great list to refer.
Here is my 25 to the list.
Authentication
Search
Date validation
Currency conversion
Printing
Import - Excel, Word, PDF, MPP
Export - Excel, Word, PDF, MPP
Data encryption
Data validations - Text, Number, Email
SMS integration
Email integration
Image compression
Storing of artifacts
Privilege allocation
Holidays schedule
List of countries
List of states in various countries
Phone codes for various countries
Multi-language support
Multi-currency support
Date comparison
Social integrations - Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+
Maps
Units of measure conversions
Currency conversions
Do add your reusable requirements to the above list.
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