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Requirements Gathering
By Harold Quinones www.guaroco.com.au
Summary
• Tools • Documentation • Collaboration • Psychology
Tools
1. Pencil and paper
Tools
3. Prototyping (Just In Mind)
Documentation
1. Technical requirements – Programming language – Web Technologies – Server resourcing – Server type – Libraries – Etc...
Documentation
2. Business requirements – Cost – Savings – Income Potential – Return on Investment
Documentation
3. User requirements – Use Cases – User Testing – Focus Groups
Collaboration
• Highly important in any large scale project
• Tools are getting more sophisticated
• Real time collaboration speeds up the process
• Collaborate internally and externally
Psychology
• Customers don’t always know what they want
• You need to help them work it out
• Sometimes best to be a problem solve
Psychology “The most difficult part of requirements gathering is not the act of recording what the user wants, it is the exploratory development activity of helping users figure out what they want.”
-Steve McConnell Author of many software engineer textbooks
Thank you
References • http://www.my-project-management-expert.com/image-files/business-
requirements-management.jpg • http://manwithnoblog.com/2009/11/26/heretical-ideas-stop-using-wireframes • https://balsamiq.com • http://www.justinmind.com • https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/04/17/slow • http://www.afa.asn.au/about-us/afa-investment-fund • http://www.limina-ao.com/services/evaluation.html • http://media.photobucket.com/user/mickey110257/media/Teamwork.jpg.html • http://www.cogenit.fr/ressources/livres-bleus/smv-agile-method-for-it-projects • http://www.21stcenturynews.com.au/psychology-stock-market-investing