CommonSensical Requirements Gathering & Elicitation: A Guide To Simple, Lean, & Agile Requirements Gathering

A Guide To Simple, Lean, & Agile Requirements Gathering and Elicitation for Business Analysts, Project Managers, and Product Owners.

The purpose of this book is to teach professionals how to improve their skills in requirements gathering and elicitation by using the commonsensical approach. This book focuses on the 2nd BABoK Knowledge area: Elicitation and Collaboration. Specifically sections 4.1 to 4.3 Preparing, Conducting, and Confirmation Elicitation.

Are good requirements just laying around waiting for you to pick them up and write them out? Of course not! Requirements elicitation is not simply gathering requirements. Many times the users or clients themselves are not sure of what they want. All too often the most obvious requirements are wrong or incomplete. Requirements elicitation is all about learning & understanding the need by seeking, uncovering, acquiring, and elaborating.

CommonSense tells us if we want to elicit the requirements like the best of them, we need to learn from the experts. Who are the experts at asking questions and getting answers? The top three answers:
• Curious 2-Year-Olds – Learn how to walk in the room with little or no assumptions; Don’t be afraid to ask the same question in a different way; The power of why.

• Concerned Mothers of Teenagers – Learn how to ask probing questions; When to use tough love; Let them know that you have their best interest at heart

• Detectives or FBI Agents – Understand basic human instincts and how to use them to your advantage; Which Techniques, Approaches, and Tools to use and when to use them; How to identify when someone is resistant to provide you with the information you need.

Here are a few more things you will learn from this book:

The Commonsensical Approach and How to Apply It
The History of Requirements Gathering
The Core Curriculum (Explore Where to Find Requirements Gathering & Elicitation in the Boks - Bodies of Knowledge)
The 5 Ws of Requirements Elicitation (Who, What, When, Where, & Why)
The Tasks, Activities, and Techniques Expected for Requirements Gathering & Elicitation