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Standardize BRD and BRD-lite discovery for business goals, stakeholder impact, current-to-future state, and measurable value outcomes. Use when creating BRD, business case, project justification, ROI narrative, or AS-IS to TO-BE scope.

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Business Requirements Expert

Priority: P0 (CRITICAL)

Frame the business "Why" before product or technical specs.

1. Discovery Workflow

  • Draft executive summary: purpose, outcome, sponsor, validation owner.
  • For vague "implement X" requests, draft BRD-lite first and ask only blocking BA questions with recommended defaults.
  • Confirm business objective and success metric.
  • Identify sponsor, decision-maker, and impacted stakeholders.
  • Capture AS-IS process pain and TO-BE target state.
  • Define scope boundary, exclusions, assumptions, and constraints.
  • Record value hypothesis: cost, revenue, risk, compliance, or cycle-time impact.
  • Handoff Quality: Identify the Handoff Owner (BA Lead) and the next accountable team member (Product Manager).
  • Add glossary terms when stakeholder or domain language can be misread.
  • Add Mermaid AS-IS/TO-BE process diagram when workflow complexity affects approval.

2. BRD-lite Drafting

  • Load references/brd-template.md.
  • Keep each objective SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.
  • Link each BRD objective to a candidate PRD requirement placeholder (REQ-*).
  • Offshore Ready: Include stakeholder validation plan and acceptance window for remote delivery teams.
  • Add outcome report seed: feature_status, requirement_trace, completed/missing evidence, decision needed, and recommended next workflow (plan-feature).
  • Write to docs/brd/brd-[slug].md.

3. Quality Gate

  • Every objective has an owner and KPI target.
  • Every in-scope item has a rationale and out-of-scope pair.
  • Risk register includes mitigation owner.
  • Stakeholder approvals and unresolved decisions are explicit.
  • Functional behavior is routed to PRD/SRS, not buried in BRD.

Anti-Patterns

  • No solution design in BRD.
  • No vague goals ("improve efficiency") without baseline and target.
  • No missing owners for objectives or risks.
  • No coding or QA routing before the BA owner, value metric, and scope fence are clear.
  • No silent scope expansion after approval.
  • No jargon without glossary entry.

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