Thursday, September 28, 2006

Requirement Gathering & Stirring ideas

How to stir up ideas in stakeholders and units within an organization
  • Go through the introduction of what the project is, and ask them to start thinking of scenarios of various features of a software that is being presented
  • Try to get them interact as you introduce individual features
  • Then at last... have an open-ended discussion in which you should have several slides that are 'stimulant' of ideas by looking at the data from various angles:
  1. Inter-departmental communication
  2. Documents, data that they expect to have from other people to be able to finish there tasks.
  3. How should people find information about their unit, e.g. Contact list, location, what they do, what is the mission statement etc.