Report Development - Report Requirements Document

The purpose of report requirements document is to define the requirements for each report or group of reports.

Personally I don’t like to read 80 pages of technical documentation for a report. Nor would I want to scratch my head wondering what the report is doing Vs what it is supposed to do.

Here is a quick checklist of items to include in the report requirements documentation

• Business need for the report
• Requirements from the point of view of the end users
• The selection and the filter criteria
• Data elements in the report
• Calculations if any
• Parameters in the report
• Sort, grouping and totaling requirements
• Appearance and style requirements (i.e. layout of the report, column names to be shown etc)
• Performance requirements (speed and latency)
• Security requirements (who needs access to the report)