Overview of Collaborative Requirements Development Methodology Sample Clauses

Overview of Collaborative Requirements Development Methodology. The CRDM, developed by the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII), is a commonly utilized informatics methodology applied in the field of public health informatics in recent decades. The CRDM methodology relies heavily on a classic operational or systems engineering approach whereby subject matter experts and/or participants within a business process are engaged in a detailed workflow or task flow analysis. This approach begins by first considering the general context of the business (or public health operation). Next, the way that work is being done, or the current state, “is documented in a series of task flow diagrams which elicit the primary tasks and decision points engaged in completing a specific task. Once agreement is reached on the current state, a second phase of the methodology calls for a critical evaluation of the current state to seek inefficiencies or opportunities to improve the current state task flows resulting in a new enhanced future state. The final phase of the CRDM is to translate the future state workflows into a comprehensive body of functional system requirements. The functional system requirements in conjunction with the future state workflows serve as the reference documentation to perform a system evaluation for a technology system(s) that may best serve the newly designed future state of the business process.