Should we separate ‘Requirement gathering processes and ‘Design Process’?

Requirements Gathering forms the basic and vital part of any successful project management application development. Each new process, every fresh product, or even, for that matter, any new project created in a business organization is in response to some business requirement. This fact leads to accentuate the importance of aligning the needs with process designs.

Requirement Gathering

It is the collection of facts about why an organization undertakes a project. These requirements explicitly state the benefits to the organization and its stakeholders that may be reaped by undertaking the project. Whereas any useful factors that comprise business requirements are naturally found with stakeholders and their feedback, it is the responsibility of the Business Analyst to capture these using elicitation techniques, in a sensible and productive manner that facilitates building further process designs.

Methods of Gathering Requirements

• Statement of Problem
• Vision and Mission of the Project
• Restrictions and Limitations
• Organizational Goals & Objectives
• Stakeholder Analysis Process
• Business Practice Analysis

Steps in Requirements Gathering

• Interviews with experts and relating requirements
• Transforming technical language into simpler one
• State complex information in understandable format
• Making stakeholders participate in all stages of involvement
• Documentation of requirements in concise form for users
• Specifying Client Business Requirements

Requirements and Design

A lot has got to be conceived, coordinated, and implemented between defining the problem and designing the solution. The success rate of Gathering Business Requirement depends to a wide extent on the Design of the Solution Processes. Business Analysts must have a sound understanding about the application of needs to be able to identify the requirements in the first place. Process Design is in fact a fore runner to collecting information of requirements.

To construct an effective process design, the Business Analyst must either be well-versed in the operations involved in the business, or he must acquire guidance and support from subject matter experts. Business Requirements are indispensable for warranting that the solutions provided are capable of delivering what is expected. They assure that solutions offer business value as well as meet the needs of the business. Stakeholder Requirements facilitate these solutions to be of help to users for getting their activities performed well.

Improper Design and not gathering stakeholder requirements leads to either failed projects or challenging situations. Process Designs based on diligently elicited Business and Stakeholder Requirements on the other hand provide the way to the desired future achievement with minimal hiccups.