Requirements Analysis



  • Request value of requirements/features, aides prioritization and identifying alternatives
  • Discuss and document customer's why
  • Document gestures per task and max time per task: user productivity
  • Avoid discussing solution/how as it moves conversation from customer's domain to developer's 
  • Fast, responsive, and extensible are not requirements because they aren't quantifiable
  • Criteria are objective with thresholds
  • Non-functional requirements like performance should be specified early and tested and tracked early (baselined) and throughout the project
  • Clarify and Document Constraints
  • Clarify, Document, Reduce and Manage Scope
  • Prioritize and build most important features first
  • Divide and conquer - breakup, parallelize, and design/implement smaller features whenever possible
  • Document and track risks, i.e., the same as bugs update the status as risks are mitigated

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