Trawling the business Requirements:
It is defined as a logically examining concluded a business to recognize the work being complete. In other words trawling also stands for a big net that use to catch fishes but it is also searching through find something.
Formality Guide:
- Rabbit Projects: It is one of the formality guide for business projects. It is all about to visit the current work of projects divide into small pieces and then continue to find its core and eventually its explanation. It is done with few stakeholders also need less documentation. More important the cycle is repeated until the project is complete and project take short period of time.
- Horse Projects: It is another formality guide for business project. Horse projects are large number of projects and long time projects. It includes large number of stakeholders and possibly make more widespread use of apprenticing, interviewing, and use case workshops. It also include the documentation for current work for projects.
- Elephant Projects: Elephant projects are known as larger projects. Elephant projects done with more stakeholders than other projects and it require more documentation on ongoing basis with formal specification that develop projects.
The Brown Cow Model:
It is a business use case model mainly has four views of work and differently two axes are separate What from How, and the Now from the Future. Lower left sides of the model is for How – Now. It focuses on the application of the work as it currently happens, including the physical objects, and workstations used to do the work.
The upper left side is about the What – Now it tells about the real business policy, and for essence of the work. It also focuses on the ideas of current business is actually doing. The upper right side is all about the Future – What view. It look for the future state of business area also about the enhanced business policy models and for innovations.
The last one lower right side focuses on the Future – How. It tells about the ideas that use for future business policy, technology, and people that bring ideas into real world. Future – How includes new workflows, new design models, and new roles.
By: Kirandeep Kaur Gill
Group 1 Tim Horton's 
Trawling for business requirements:
Once the blastoff is completed, the requirements analysts start trawling for requirements. They learn the work being done by the business area identified by the blastoff. For convenience and consistency, they partition the work context diagram into business use cases. For Tim Hortons, the business analysts start gather requirements from the stakeholders by talking to them and do market research.
By: Haoyan Yin
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Examples of these different Formality Guides that Tim Hortons uses would include:
Rabbit: new donut flavor. As discussed in an earlier post about using Lean methodologies in TQM. Tim Hortons claims that they can roll out a new donut flavor in 6 months and they follow a rapid model to do so.
Horse: A rewards/loyalty program that Tim’s just implemented on March 22 where after 7 purchases, you get a free item when you sign up with their app. One would assume this project would take 6mon-1 year to implement.
Elephant: Project to Focus on acquiring new coffee growers in different countries to obtain new coffee sources. This will take a long time to research, and develop potential growers and make sure they align with the company, have the correct standards that Tims accepts, create and solidify a deal, etc. This would take years to conduct and implement and is why it’s an elephant project.
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The Brown cow model works on the work happen at the current stage and hoe that work will be done in the long run which is the future and who and how it work in the situation. In the Tim Horton’s this is important for the business analysis to get the information of the work at all the stages which is important for the company that who the work will go and how will work on it to make sure the stakeholders get the important information.
By: Sachin Chopra
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