A Beginner's Guide To Requirements Elicitation: What To Do During The Event

Are you new to requirements elicitation?

The entire success of a ship’s voyage lies on the captain’s shoulders and how well the passengers and crew are managed. Passengers get on the ship, knowing where they want to go but not how to navigate the ship to its destination. This is where the captain comes in. The captain understands how to navigate through the storms that may come, knows the route to take, and ensures everyone on board is comfortable throughout the journey. 

This is what a facilitator is expected to do during an elicitation event—help stakeholders resolve issues that crop up and go through the agenda to achieve the objectives of the event thereby guiding stakeholders to their desired outcome.

A good facilitator knows when, how and why to question, listen, visualize, engage, empathise, manage issues and round up discussions to arrive at an accurate representation of requirements. 

This eBook (available for download in PDF, EPUB & MOBI formats) touches on each of the key activities that need to take place during a requirements elicitation event for success. It unveils a collection of simple but essential tips that can easily be taken for granted.

Also includes a System Requirements Questionnaire, Minutes of Meeting Template and A Requirements Questionnaire/Response Tracking Template for your elicitation event. 

• System Requirements Questionnaire: Comprises 100 questions that can help to trigger discussions with stakeholders during elicitation events.
• Requirements Questionnaire & Response Template: For organizing the questions to ask stakeholders and documenting the responses received. This questionnaire can be used before the event or during the event It also includes a Questioning Framework section for thinking through the relevance of each question and organizing questions by priority.
• A Minutes of Meeting Template for documenting the minutes of meetings held with stakeholders. All the relevant sections you need are included.
  

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