Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach, Second Edition

Chapter 11. Requirements Workshops

Key Points

• The requirements workshop may be the most powerful technique for eliciting requirements.

• It gathers all key stakeholders together for a short but intensely focused period.

• The use of an outside facilitator experienced in requirements management can help ensure the success of the workshop.

• Brainstorming is the most important part of the workshop.

Accelerating the Decision Process

In the prior chapter, we introduced interviewing as a primary requirements gathering technique. In this and following chapters, we'll introduce additional techniques that can be used to elicit and organize requirements. In general, the more elicitation and requirements gathering techniques the team has in their toolkit, the more ...