About Requirements Elicitation and Development
Effectively Engaging with Project Stakeholders
Requirements elicitation and development is the process by which the business analyst engages in dialog with the stakeholders who have an interest in how a software solution must function. Stakeholders include organization leadership, managers, and staff working in the business domain that the solution will be used to support. Managers and technical stakeholders (e.g., architects, developers, and quality assurance testers) are also stakeholders.
The business analysis role exists largely to validate that the solution being built properly reflects the intent of the involved stakeholders.
Charles Goolsby has extensive experience in managing and performing the requirements elicitation and development activity for large and small software development projects.
Elicitation Techniques:
- Joint Application Requirements (JAR) session facilitation
- Joint Application Design (JAD) session facilitation
- Rapid prototyping of solution user interfaces
- Individual requirements interview-based facilitation
- Guiding discussion to maximize process improvement
Additional Requirements Analysis Activities:
- Perform process improvement for the to be solution
- Develop appropriate requirements for Commercial Off the Shelf Software (COTS)-based software solutions
- Develop system and user acceptance (UAT) test cases
Requirements Specification Activities (Charles specializes in the development of the following Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid SDLC process-based types content types):
- Business, functional, non-functional, technical requirements
- Agile features, epics, user stories, and technical stories
- Business and functional use cases
- COTS fit/gap requirements analyses
- Unified Modeling Language use case, activity, state diagrams; standard notation workflow, context diagrams
- Business process modeling (BPM) diagrams
- Business and functional requirements documents (BRD/FRD)
- Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs)
- Automated Requirements Tool content
- Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTMs)
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