[Sigia-l] Interesting & Effective Requirements Gathering Techniques?

[Jacqueline Stetson]

Hi Susan,

One technique that I like to use is creating a wireframe workflow during a stakeholder focus group. This is particularly helpful for stakeholders who have never been through a development process before and don't know the difference between a business objective, functional requirement, a wireframe, and a visual design. Since they don't know how to define what they want, it's often easier to work with what they don't want. I have found that this is often the quickest way to define requirements. It takes a bit of time and you need to strongly moderate the sessions, but you walk out with a set of wireframes, functional requirements, stakeholder input, ... You can refine the wireframes and interaction models afterward and present the wireframes back to the users at the next session. 

Hope this helps! Let me know if you're going to give it a go and I can tell you all the mistakes I made...

Jacqueline Stetson

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>Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:46:56 -0500
>From: Susan Rice <ratdog99 at hotmail.com>  
>Subject: [Sigia-l] Interesting & Effective Requirements 
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>I'm looking for interesting techniques for the requirements gathering of internal applications... specifically ones that involve levels of participatory design