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ProjeCt sCoPe ManageMent
How to Elicit Requirements
Elicitation Methodologies
Interviews Interviews are probably one of the most popular elicita-
tion techniques. Having one-on-one or one-on-many discussions
with clients or users is a popular start for the requirements elicitation
stage on many projects. In Chapter 4, we already discussed the best
ways for identifying the users. Later, in the “Unearthing High-Level
Requirements” section of this chapter, we talk about various require-
ments extraction techniques that can be used during interviews.
ere are two types of interviews a project manager or a require-
ments analyst could conduct:
• Informal interviews
• Structured interviews
Informal interviews have a relatively unstructured setup where ...