Practice area · Requirements Engineering & Business Analysis
Trade-offs made explicit before they become regrets.
Multi-discipline workshops, sharp user stories, and feature specifications that hold up under change. Scope, budget, and timeline negotiated openly — not discovered at UAT.
Overview
Requirements are the contract between business and engineering. We make the trade-offs explicit while there is still room to negotiate them.
What it is
Specifications that survive change.
Requirements engineering for trading systems is more than note-taking. It is the practice of getting business, operations, and engineering to agree on what is being built — at a level of precision that holds up when reality changes.
We facilitate workshops, write BRD/SRS/FRS suites that trace end-to-end, and shape user stories with acceptance criteria sharp enough to run as tests. The output is a versioned source of truth, not a binder.
Workflow
Workshop to sign-off, with traceability.
- Workshop: facilitated sessions across business, operations, and engineering.
- BRD captures business intent.
- SRS expresses system requirements.
- FRS specifies functional behavior.
- User stories (highlighted) bridge business and engineering.
- Acceptance criteria make stories testable.
- Sign-off makes scope, budget, and timeline explicit.
Deliverables
What you walk away with.
- Workshop facilitation across business, ops, and engineering — with the right people in the room.
- BRD, SRS, and FRS that trace requirements end-to-end and survive change because they are versioned.
- User stories with acceptance criteria sharp enough to run as tests.
- Traceability matrix linking business outcome → requirement → user story → test.
- Sign-off package: scope, budget, timeline, and the trade-offs made explicit before they become regrets.
Pitfalls
How we don't do it.
- Requirements gathered as note-taking instead of facilitation — accuracy without alignment.
- User stories that hide ambiguity behind verb-noun templates.
- Skipping acceptance criteria and discovering the disagreement at UAT.
- Treating sign-off as ceremony rather than the contract it actually is.
Engagement
How we work with you.
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Workshop
Facilitated sessions with business, ops, and engineering — same room, same artifacts.
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Specify
BRD, SRS, FRS, and user stories that trace from outcome to test.
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Pressure-test
Walk-throughs that surface ambiguity before code, not after UAT.
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Sign off
Scope, budget, and timeline made explicit and owned by name.
Have a build that needs a real spec?
Bring us the stakeholders and the ambition. We'll come back with a workshop plan and a specification suite that traces outcomes to tests.
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