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Efficient Requirements Engineering

Determine your client's needs – exactly

•  Gathering and Structuring Requirements.
•  Techniques used to gather and structure types of requirements.
•  Interviews.
•  Questionnaires.
•  Workgroup sessions.
•  Surveys and observations.
•  Use cases for gathering/documenting requirements.

Write requirements that are complete, traceable, and testable

•  The SMART way to write requirements.
•  Keywords to avoid/favour.
•  Tracing to the originators of requirements.
•  Understanding the underlying assumptions.
•  Business justifications.
•  Inter-relationships.
•  Criticality of the requirements.

Precisely define the scope of the product/system

• Identifying the all-encompassing scope
• Scoping external business requirements
• Scoping performance, interfaces, operations and implementation.
• System sizing.
• Scoping the "ilities" (availability, reliability, scalability, usability...)

Identify the stakeholders and keep them involved throughout the project

• Stakeholder categories
• Analysing stakeholders
• Stakeholder management strategies
• Managing stakeholders
• Social media and stakeholder management
• Understanding stakeholder perspectives

Use techniques such as storyboarding and e-collaboration

• Get your story ideas onto paper.
• Cut and shuffle ideas into storyboard panels.
• Keep things flexible.
• Embrace random ideas.
• Explore character narratives.
• Example collaboration toolsets.

Get the requirements quickly, and validate them early and often

• Avoiding BUFD (big up-front design)
• How much analysis and design is enough?
• Fail fast.
• Identify feedback cycles.
• Iteratively validate requirements.
• Validation during analysis, design and implementation.
• Quick stakeholder feedback.
• BDD behaviour-driven design to the rescue.