Requirements Discovery

Question 1

What are the four steps of determining requirements?

Answer 1

Requirements discovery

Requirements classificaiton and organisation

Requirements prioritisation

Requirements documentation

Question 2

What are the different requirement discovery methods?

Answer 2

Interviews
Document analysis
Observation
Questionnaires
Joint Application Development

Question 3

What is meant by document analysis?

Answer 3

Collect all the available and relevant documents and analyze these documents to extract requirements.

Question 4

What are the pros and cons of using questionnaires?

Answer 4

Pros:
Good to use on a large number of people.

Cons:
Very low levels of responses and responses often take a long time. Recall is an issue also.

Question 5

What is joint application development?

Answer 5

The project team, managers, and users work together to determine the requirements needed for the system.

Better to gain a group consensus about needed requirements.

Question 6

What are the pros and cons of interviews?

Answer 6

Pros:
Depth of information

Cons:
Breadth of information
Integration of infomation

Okay:
User involvement
Cost

Question 7

What are the pros and cons of document analysis?

Answer 7

Pros:
Breadth of information
Low cost

Cons:
Depth
Integration
User involvement

Question 8

What are the pros and cons of joint application development?

Answer 8

Pros:
High-depth of information
The medium breadth of information
Integration
User involvement
Low to medium cost

Cons:
None?