Collect Requirements Flashcards
Planning
What is the purpose of the Collect Requirements process?
To determine, document and manage Stakeholder needs to meet project objectives.
What is a Focus Group?
A trained guide leads pre-qualified stakeholders and SMEs through an interactive discussion designed to learn about their expectations and attitudes regarding a proposed product, service or result.
What is Facilitated Techniques?
Focused sessions in collecting requirements from key stakeholders to define product requirements.
What is Joint Application Design (JAD)?
Facilitation technique used in software development to improve software development process.
What is Quality Function Deployment (QFD)?
Facilitation technique used in manufacturing industry for new product development.
What are Group Creative Techniques in collecting requirements?
1) Brainstorming, 2)Nominal Group Techniques, 3) Affinity Diagrams, 4) Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
What is Nominal Group Techniques?
Voting process in brainstorming to rank or prioritize most useful ideas.
What is Idea/Mind Mapping?
Brainstorming sessions are consolidated into a single map to reflect similarities and differences to create new ideas.
What is Affinity Diagram?
Allows large numbers of ideas to be classified into a group for review and analysis.
What is Multicriteria Decision Analysis?
Decision matrix to provide systematic analytical approach to evaluate and rank many ideas.
What are Group Decision-Making Techniques?
Unanimity (everyone agrees to one single course of action - Delphi technique), Majority (decision reached by more than 50% members in group), Plurality (decision reached by largest block), Dictatorship (one individual makes decision for the group)
What is Job Shadowing?
Observations on viewing individuals in their environment and how they perform.
What is Prototype?
Obtaining early feedback on requirements by providing an working model.
What is Benchmarking?
Compares actual or planned practices to those of comparable organizations for best practices.
What is a Context Diagram?
A technique that visually depicts the product scope by showing a business system, and how people and other systems interact with it.
