BA Maester: The Enterprise BA Requirements Checklist — 20 Quality Checks from Real Enterprise Projects
Nobody loses an enterprise programme because of a bad process diagram.They lose it because a requirement said "should" instead of "must" — and eighteen months later, in UAT, two organisations discover they read the same sentence differently. One side calls it a defect. The other calls it a change request. Both are right, which is the worst possible outcome.This is the one-page checklist I run over requirements documentation before it goes to stakeholder review, sign-off, or handoff to a delivery team. Twenty checks across four sections. About ten minutes per document.Clarity and Precision — catches ambiguity, weak modal verbs, unverifiable statements, and terms that different stakeholders quietly read differently.Completeness and Coverage — catches missing non-functional requirements, unstated assumptions, undocumented exception paths, and migration rules deferred to delivery.Traceability and Alignment — verifies every requirement links to a business objective, a named owner, acceptance criteria and a test scenario.Governance and Sign-off Readiness — confirms stakeholder review, conflict resolution, prioritisation, version control and a formal approval trail.Every check is paired with the failure it prevents. None of it is textbook advice. It is the list of things that have actually gone wrong on government, financial services and insurance programmes, learned the expensive way.One page. Free. Print it and keep it next to your keyboard.— BA Maester. The definitive resource for aspiring and practising Business Analysts who want to work on enterprise-level systems.
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