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REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION

The purpose of this section is to expand upon the Collect Requirements process described in the PMBOK® Guide and align it to Section 4 of Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide.

Elicitation is a discovery process used to bring forward or produce information relevant to the project or program by drawing out information from stakeholders and other sources. This process aims to identify the causes of the business problem or the reasons for addressing an opportunity, as well as the information to be used to derive a sufficient level of requirements to enable a solution to be developed and implemented.

The elicitation domain uses progressive elaboration, as all requirements are generally not known or revealed ...

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