what are Recent trends in Requirement Elicitation?

Question

I am conducting a research on recent techniques of (software )requirement elicitaion used by practitioners ?

a) Interviews
b) Surveys
c) Questioneers
d) Storyboards
e) Other???

please specify lil descrition too and how does these techniques vary from projct to project?

Answer 1

As a business analyst I use

(a) Interviews, (d) Storyboards (e) GUI Mock ups, Descriptive Documents, Activity Diagrams, Prototypes and white boarding

to elicit requirements.

I think the real key is to make sure requirement elicitation is ALWAYS collaborative and iterative.

• DO NOT dictate requirements to the user or try to gather requirements that are not there (in fact requirement gathering in itself is a misnomer - you cant gather that which does not exist.) Confirm things early and often and check in as much as possible.

  Make peace with that fact that you will never get 100% of all the requirements on LARGE projects but if you are good you can get 100% of the MISSION Critical requirements.

  Make sure that the whole team is involved (IT, Business, Support) and has a clear interest and stake - if someone critical doesnt care or has no responsibility - things will fail.