Software Architect's Handbook

Requirements workshops

Requirements workshops are one of the most common and effective elicitation methods. They are used to collect and prioritize requirements. A group of relevant stakeholders is invited to attend a session in which they will provide their feedback. An inevitable result of having such discussions will be a higher level of clarity on how the software should work, and what it is required to do.

A clear agenda should be set for each requirements workshop. The scope varies, but you might want to keep each session restricted to a certain part of the business process or software application. Someone should be designated as the facilitator who can run the meeting, and a different person should take notes.

The duration of a requirements ...