From the course: Business Analysis Foundations: Fundamentals (2014)

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Gather requirements

Gather requirements

From the course: Business Analysis Foundations: Fundamentals (2014)

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Gather requirements

- Creating a shopping list for an important dinner party is very similar to gathering requirements. You need to know who is coming, what they want for dinner, and what they like and don't like. As the host of the party, you need to know what is already in the pantry, what budget you have, and the amount of time in which you need to pull it all together and get dinner on the table. While guessing works sometimes, this dinner will make or break your next promotion chance, so gathering the right information is imperative. Relying on just one source of information gathering will increase the risk of not achieving the outcomes of the project. Some elicitation techniques benefit from reviewing documentation outputs with stakeholders, to ensure that the analyst understanding aligns to the actual desires or intent of the stakeholders. In preparing to interact with stakeholders, gather the written stuff first. Here are a number of ways to Source Requirements. Firstly, Analyzing processes and…

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