Reaping the Benefits of Good User Requirements A critical part of any software development project is the requirements gathering. If you are unclear about what is going to be delivered, how will you know when you get there? Good user requirements lead to better estimates, improved customer satisfaction, reduced cost and a shorter duration. A few questions that need to be asked before the start of any software development project are: Why are we building the system?What benefits are we expecting to get from it? A failure to gather business requirements or assuming we know what is required can lead to a poor outcome, requirement for extra resources, increased cost and longer duration. As Frederick Brooks put it, "The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding what to build. Providing a Firm Foundation Good requirements gathering provides a firm foundation from which to work. A good set of requirements enables the project manager to plan and estimate the project effectively. Running Requirements Meetings Common Problems
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Use Case Diagrams: A PM's View Recently, I attended a class on managing requirements with Use Cases. It was aimed at training business analysts and programmers to use Unified Modeling Language (UML) to understand and communicate business requirements. As a project manager I found it both enlightening and encouraging. Enlightenment Bottom line, modeling requirements is the quickest way to work with the end users and agree upon of what the system should be designed and developed to do. The three main components of a Use Case diagrams are the Actors, Use Cases and Scenarios. In one of my training sessions I use the eXtreme Insurance company as the basis for the exercises. These quick, graphical representations are developed from information gathered through interviewing the users, observing system usage, researching similar systems and other means. Encouraging The encouraging part of this class was the way the instructor used Use Cases as a means to establish a requirements baseline and discuss change management.
The Mind Mapping Software Weblog InformationTamers.com, a web site created by the developers of Topicscape, a 3-D mind mapping software program, walks the reader through concise and engaging analysis of different information management solutions, and their strengths and weaknesses. Here are a few highlights: Indexing software: This genre of programs indexes the contents of your computer's hard drive and then enables you to conduct keyword searches it. This type of software was of limited use to the author because it was hard to come up with a precise search term that would deliver the results he was looking for. Like using a web search engine, these indexing programs often returned too many irrelevant results. Mind mapping/concept mapping software: These tools moved information management into the realm of a “visual road map,” which made it easier to “see” pieces of information and how they fit into the larger whole.
Home Data Warehousing - Requirement Gathering Data Warehousing > Data Warehouse Design > Requirement Gathering Task Description The first thing that the project team should engage in is gathering requirements from end users. The primary goal of this phase is to identify what constitutes as a success for this particular phase of the data warehouse project. Associated with the identification of user requirements is a more concrete definition of other details such as hardware sizing information, training requirements, data source identification, and most importantly, a concrete project plan indicating the finishing date of the data warehousing project. Based on the information gathered above, a disaster recovery plan needs to be developed so that the data warehousing system can recover from accidents that disable the system. Time Requirement 2 - 8 weeks. Deliverables A list of reports / cubes to be delivered to the end users by the end of this current phase. Possible Pitfalls Copyright © 2014 1keydata.com All Rights Reserved Privacy Policy
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