Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the importance of requirements elicitation and its current state in the agile world. We then learned how to create two important artifacts: the stakeholder model and the glossary. These artifacts give us the context and clarity of communication needed when communicating with stakeholders. Finally, we examined how to gather requirements from our stakeholders and analyze them in order to identify requirement entities. We learned a number of elicitation and analysis techniques, such as structured conversation, D3, and business process mapping. These techniques greatly facilitate the gathering and analysis requirements and allow their successful modeling in a requirements model.

This chapter also concludes the first part of the book. You now have enough knowledge to elicit, validate, model, and specify your system's requirements. However, requirements management doesn't stop here. In the next section of this book, we'll learn how...