GRK, a prominent infrastructure company with nearly 1,100 professionals across Finland, Sweden, and Estonia, specializes in designing, building, and maintaining roads, highways, tracks, and bridges. Their expertise extends to environmental services, making them a comprehensive solution provider in the infrastructure sector.
When Jarmo joined GRK's IT department, he identified significant opportunities to streamline how the company gathered and documented system requirements from business stakeholders. This case study explores how GRK transformed their requirements engineering process with Qlerify, creating a more efficient bridge between business needs and technical implementation.
"Qlerify gave us a common language between business and IT teams, dramatically improving our requirements quality."
- Jarmo, Head of IT at GRK
Upon joining GRK, Jarmo quickly identified several improvement areas in the company's system requirements gathering process:
Jarmo began searching for a comprehensive solution with specific objectives in mind. He wanted a platform that:
Jarmo needed a solution that combined business accessibility with technical depth.
Jarmo had used several tools in the past for process mapping, diagramming, requirements engineering and data modeling. However, these tools did not address the challenges outlined above. The decision to implement Qlerify was based on several distinguishing features that addressed GRK's specific needs:
Jarmo noted that this unique combination of capabilities was not available in other tools he had evaluated, making Qlerify the clear choice for GRK's requirements.
The implementation process for Qlerify at GRK was remarkably straightforward. Jarmo and his team:
This approach allowed for quick adoption and empowered business stakeholders to take ownership of their documentation.
GRK currently uses Qlerify for creating comprehensive system requirements for SaaS product selection.
Since implementing Qlerify, GRK has experienced several notable improvements:
While the implementation is relatively recent, making it difficult to quantify the impact in numbers, the qualitative improvements in requirements quality and cross-functional alignment have been significant.
The primary value GRK has derived from Qlerify is a user-friendly, proven, and powerful approach to gathering and documenting business needs. This has enabled them to:
GRK plans to expand the usage of Qlerify to other business units, enabling more teams to create system blueprints efficiently. They also intend to leverage the domain modeling features for designing APIs in the future.
”Qlerify was really handy in our ERP project for defining software requirements. The software was very easy to learn, and I’m happy to use it in future projects as well, because it helps visualize the software’s operating principles.” Sakari, Project Engineer at GRK
The implementation of Qlerify at GRK demonstrates how the right requirements engineering tool can transform the interaction between business and IT. By selecting a platform that prioritizes both business accessibility and technical depth, GRK has created a more efficient requirements gathering process that ensures development efforts align with genuine business needs.
For organizations struggling with the gap between business requirements and technical implementation, GRK's experience highlights the importance of selecting tools that can serve as a bridge between these two worlds. The right platform should not only document requirements but facilitate a collaborative process that gives all stakeholders clarity and ownership.
As GRK continues to expand their use of Qlerify across the organization, they are building a foundation for more efficient, aligned, and successful digital transformation efforts—proving that the right tools can indeed make all the difference in turning business needs into technical reality.
