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Category: Requirements Gathering (aka Elicitation)
Articles, How-To Videos, and Course Previews
Requirements gathering is all about eliciting, trawling, discovering, extracting, drawing out – or whatever you call it – requirements from domain experts, managers, and stakeholders by any other title. This category includes articles, videos, KnowledgeKnuggets™, and books on tools, techniques, and tips for getting the requirements, user stories, features, functions, and non-functional requirements defined.
Ben Franklin on Business Analysis
Feb 10, 2011
Business Analysis Question: What Do You Know? Ben Franklin once observed, "... the more we know, the more we feel that we don't know." Actually, I’m going out on a limb here and assuming that he was neither the first nor the last to voice that thought, albeit he did...
Learning Business Analysis by Participating in a Requirements Workshop
Mar 11, 2010
JRP sessions are a viable option for getting to business and stakeholder requirements in a hurry, whether the project that implements the requirements follows an Agile or a traditional software development methodology.
Virtual Requirements Gathering Workshops – Your Time is Now!
Feb 15, 2010
Getting stakeholders together for a requirements discovery meeting is a phenomenal tool for collaborative development, one of the cornerstones of the Agile philosophy. Holding these sessions in the cloud can further improve the ROI while improving the outcomes.
Business Analyst Skills: The Fine Art of Listening
Jan 6, 2010
Listening is onve of the critical skills that anyone whearing the business analysis hat needs to master. There is more to this simple action than meets the ear.
Defining Business Problems Is a Fine First Step to Requirements Elicitation
Aug 5, 2008
The difference between problems and opportunities is primarily one of perspective. Some people see problems in opportunities, others see opportunities as problems. What’s your take?
Six Stages in the Evolution of a Business Requirement
Mar 18, 2008
Business requirements exist in the wilds of organizations around the world, The challenge is to capture, clarify and confirm them as early as possible.
Seven Critical Roles for Gathering Business and Stakeholder Requirements
Feb 5, 2008
Many different roles are involved in delivering working IT soluitons. From the business community to the IT community, the players may wear many different hats throughout the project. It is important that each hat is a good fit to ensure project success.
JAD, JAR, JRP – Agile Approaches for Requirements Gathering Workshops
Apr 30, 2007
Time-boxed requirements discovery sessions have been around since 1979 under a variety of acronyms. They are as germane to the challenge of enhancing communicaiton between IT and the business community today as when they were first conceived.
’Good’ vs ’Bad’ Business Requirements
Oct 27, 2006
Examples of good versus bad business requirements anno 2006
It’s Time to Code. Do You Know Where Your User Requirements Are?
Oct 20, 2006
Where is the Challenge with User Requirements? User Requirements are obviously very elusive little things. They seem to be extremely difficult to capture and, once captured, seem to be brilliant at hiding and escaping. It would appear that they have an uncanny ability...
JAD (Requirements Workshop) – An Agile Approach to Requirements?
Jun 14, 2006
The general idea of JAD was to assemble a cross-functional team consisting of subject matter experts and systems analysts/developers. Put this group off-site under the direction of a skilled and motivated facilitation team, this group could define high-quality business and stakeholder requirements in a week.