Patent ID: 7590552

Claim:
A method for implementing a project for a customer, said method comprising: developing business requirements of the project, said developing business requirements including reviewing the business requirements for acceptability in accordance with business requirements review (BRR) exit criteria and reviewing the BRR exit criteria, said BRR exit criteria being distributed within a plurality of business requirements categories, said reviewing the business requirements for acceptability comprising determining that the BRR exit criteria are satisfied, said determining that the BRR exit criteria are satisfied comprising: providing at least one business requirements scorecard criteria for each business requirements category, said at least one business requirements scorecard criteria reflecting said BRR exit criteria for each business requirements category; providing business requirements weights corresponding to the business requirements scorecard criteria; providing business requirements scores corresponding to the business requirements scorecard criteria; computing a BRR overall review score as a function of the business requirements scores and the business requirements weights; determining a first result consisting of the BRR exit criteria being satisfied by determining that the computed BRR overall review score is not less than a specified minimum success business requirements score; transmitting the BRR overall review score and the first result to a least one output device of a computer system; said computing the BRR overall review score and said determining the first result being performed by executing BRR software that computes the BRR overall review score and determines the first result, said BRR software being stored on a computer readable storage medium and being executed by a processor of the computer system.