Chapter 3. Portal Requirements Engineering

This chapter covers the discipline of requirements engineering for portal. One of the most fundamental aspects of successful portal implementations is the functional and nonfunctional requirements gathering. The focus of this chapter is to help you understand how to best gather these requirements. Functional aspects, for example, which functionality set the portal needs to support based on existing or new business demands, and nonfunctional aspects, such as security, performance, availability, scalability, maintainability, trainability as well need to be well understood and prioritized by all Lines of Business (LOBs), project, and program-level teams. Best practices will be presented in a step-by-step way. By the end of this chapter, we will have covered:

• The discipline of requirements and requirements as a discipline

• The step-by-step approach based on the best practices

  • List users, existing systems, and functional requirements

  • Derive actors and use...