Requirements Elicitation

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Requirements Elicitation
The Story and Human Factors
By
Ricardo R. Garcia
Sept 10, 2006
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What Im not talking about
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Act I
Is Requirements Elicitation a Science or Art?
Protagonist The Business Analyst and System
Analyst
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The Facilitator
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Getting the Right People
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Stakeholders
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Starting the meeting
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How you Elicit Requirements?
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Act II

• Leverage the human factors for
• requirements elicitation

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Human Interaction
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Interview Iterations
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Difficult Participants
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Act III

• Use Case as a catalyst for
• Requirements Elicitation

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The Wall
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Fast Debrief
Source Ellen Gottesdiener, EBG Consulting,
www.ebgconsulting.com, Used with Permission
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Assess the Problem
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What is a Use Case?
???
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Inputs and Outputs
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Why the Use Case as a Storyteller?
If you can read this note I will recommend you
to do nothing about this Usa Case
Assumption If you can read this note I will
recommend you to do nothing about this Usa Case
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Use Cases, Each Have a Goal
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Success Criteria
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Validate or Invalidate Assumptions
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  Recap for Understanding
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Wrap-Up
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Credits

• The Facilitators Field Book Tom Justin and
  David W. Jamieson, PhD.
• Requirements by Collaboration Workshops for
  Defining Needs
• by Ellen Gottesdiener
• http//www.ebgconsulting.com
• Exploring Requirements Quality Before Design
  Doanld C. Gause, Geral M. Weinberg
• Software Requirements Using the Unified Process
• by Daniel R. Windle, L. Rene Abreo
• http//www.nf-rug.com
• http//www.rational-ug.org/index.php
• http//www.discovercheck.com

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