Chapter 5: Discovering and Analyzing Requirements
In the previous three chapters, we learned how to create goals, stakeholders, capabilities, and features, how to write these correctly, and how to use them to create a requirements model, represented as an impact map. Still, there is a very important part of the modeling process that we haven't touched upon in much detail: how to draw the requirements out of our stakeholders and extract well-defined requirement entities from these requirements. This is what we intend to examine in this chapter. Specifically, we will cover the following:
- The lost art of requirements elicitation
- Preparing for requirements analysis
- Analyzing requirements
- Having a structured conversation
- Decompose, Derive, Discover (D3)
- Business process mapping
By the end of the chapter, you will know why requirements elicitation is so important yet so casually handled in today's agile world. You will also have learned about...