Benefits of Collaborative Requirements Gathering
Pierson Requirements Group’s customers have found that they are able to capture 93 – 95% of the business requirements functionality by using a collaborative requirements method and by creating and validating paper prototypes with the business community. Pierson’s philosophy is to strive for consensus based requirements in order to provide better customer satisfaction. If a more traditional interviewing approach is used to gather requirements, studies show that only 65% of the requirements will be captured. When using a collaborative approach to gathering requirements Pierson’s studies show that there will be at least 90% of the business requirements defined. If companies validate the data descriptions and the screens and reports, the requirements will be further defined to the programmer and a better understanding of the business and technical community is achieved. JAD session and focus groups are both excellent tools for implementing a collaborative requirements gathering approach.
To learn more about training that is available for these collaborative techniques and methodologies click on Pierson’s Requirements Group’s agendas for JAD Facilitation & Requirements Gathering using Use Cases and Business Requirements Gathering & Writing Seminars.
About Joy Matthews
Joy E. Matthews is the cofounder and Vice President of Training and Consulting Services for Pierson Requirements Group, Inc., (www.piersonrequirementsgroup.com), founded in 1990. She is an Information Systems Specialist with expertise in implementing Iterative Development and Joint Application Development using many development tools. She is accomplished in business modeling and facilitation techniques. She has participated in all phases of Information Engineering systems development and Total Quality Management projects. She has successfully completed Business Process Re-engineering, Information Strategy Planning, Business Area Analysis, Functional Area Analysis and Business System Design projects for a number of organizations and is a certified facilitator.
Joy trains the latest in UML and the use case methodology using JAD. She is an expert in JAD and UML best practices and industry standards. She is the co-author of Pierson’s repeatable development Methodology for Multi-Tier Architecture projects using Object-Oriented methods and JAD. Joy is the author of the JAD Facilitation and Requirements Gathering Seminar: A Process for Implementing Object-Oriented Projects. She is accomplished in Object-Oriented Requirements Analysis, Analysis and Detailed Design. She has facilitated and managed projects for all phases of the system development life cycle.
Joy is the author of the following seminars: Requirements Gathering & Writing Seminar using Data Techniques, JAD, UML and Use Cases, Business Analysis Seminar, Requirements Gathering & Writing Seminar using JAD, Use Cases and UML, User Acceptance Testing Seminar, Requirements & Specifications Seminar, Facilitated Session Leader Seminar, Learning Use Cases and UML Seminar and Writing Requirements That Work Seminar. Joy can be reached at jmatthews@piersonrequirementsgroup.com
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