From the course: Business Analysis Foundations: Fundamentals (2014)
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Gather requirements
From the course: Business Analysis Foundations: Fundamentals (2014)
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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Building the requirements plan5m
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Gather requirements4m 13s
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Interviewing to gather requirements5m 19s
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Brainstorming to gather requirements4m 47s
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Observing a job to gather requirements4m 20s
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Surveying to expand project requirements4m 39s
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Producing business rules and requirement traceability3m 42s
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Building requirement traceability into the plan3m 56s
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Determining when you have enough requirements4m 32s
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Creating a requirements package3m 16s
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