Eliciting-Requirements SEAM CASE STUDY

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND AGILE METHODOLOGY
ELICITING REQUIREMENTS
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NAME: SUBHRAKANT SAHU
REGD No: 2101020050
ROLL NO: CSE21050 GUIDE: Mrs. Madhusmita Sahu
Introduction to Eliciting Requirements
Eliciting requirements is the crucial first step in the software development process.
It involves actively gathering, understanding, and documenting the needs and
expectations of stakeholders. This lays the foundation for a successful project that
aligns with the client's vision and delivers value.
Through effective requirements elicitation, the development team can uncover
hidden needs, resolve ambiguities, and establish a shared understanding of the
product's scope and functionalities. This collaborative process helps ensure the final
software meets the user's true needs.
Importance of Effective
Requirements Elicitation
1. Ensures the final software meets the true needs of users and stakeholders.
2. Reduces costly rework by uncovering and addressing issues early in the development cycle.
3. Establishes a shared understanding between the development team and the client.
4. Enables better project planning and resource allocation.
5. Lays the groundwork for successful software delivery that delights users.
Stakeholder Identification
and Engagement
Identifying and engaging key stakeholders is crucial for effective
requirements elicitation. Stakeholders can include users, client
representatives, subject matter experts, and cross-functional
team members.
Understand the diverse perspectives, needs, and expectations of
all stakeholders through active listening, interviews, and
collaborative workshops. Foster open communication and
establish a shared understanding to guide the development
process.
Requirements Gathering Techniques
Interviews Observation Workshops User Stories

Conduct one-on- Observe users in Facilitate Capture
one or group their natural collaborative requirements in
interviews to environment to workshops to the form of user
deeply gain firsthand gather input from stories - concise
understand insights into their cross-functional descriptions of
stakeholder workflows, stakeholders. functionality
needs, pain behaviors, and Use techniques from the user's
points, and pain points. This like perspective. This
expectations. can reveal brainstorming, helps ensure the
Encourage open requirements storyboarding, solution
dialogue and ask that users may and affinity addresses real
probing not be able to mapping to elicit user needs.
Requirement Prioritization and
Management
Prioritize Manage Clarify Track and
Requirement Evolving Acceptance Communicat
s Needs Criteria e
Establish a Expect Continuously
clear process to requirements to Define clear, track the status
prioritize change over measurable of requirements
requirements time as acceptance and
based on their stakeholder criteria for each communicate
business value, needs and requirement to progress to all
complexity, and market ensure the final stakeholders.
alignment with conditions solution meets This builds
user needs. evolve. the transparency
This helps the Implement a stakeholders' and helps
team focus on flexible change expectations manage
the most management and aligns with expectations
impactful process to the initial throughout the
features first. efficiently adapt vision. development
Agile Approach to Requirements
Elicitation
1 Iterative Gathering
In agile, requirements are gathered incrementally through frequent
collaboration with stakeholders. This allows for adaptability as needs
evolve over the course of the project.
2 User Stories
Agile teams capture requirements as user stories - concise
descriptions of functionality from the user's perspective. This ensures
the solution addresses real user needs.
3 Collaborative Workshops
Agile leverages interactive workshops to bring together cross-
functional stakeholders and elicit requirements through techniques
like affinity mapping and story mapping.
Challenges and Pitfalls in
Requirements Elicitation
Incomplete Stakeholder Unclear Communication
Identification
Ambiguous or inconsistent
Failing to identify all the key communication can result in
stakeholders can lead to missing misunderstandings and incorrect
critical requirements and interpretation of requirements.
misaligned expectations.
Scope Creep Lack of Prioritization

Uncontrolled addition of new Failing to properly prioritize
requirements can cause the project requirements can lead to wasted
to spiral out of control and miss effort on less important features.
deadlines.
Best Practices and Lessons Learned
Engage Stakeholders Early Iterate Continuously
Actively involve stakeholders Adopt an agile mindset, regularly
throughout the requirements revisiting and refining
elicitation process to build trust, requirements as the project
gather diverse perspectives, and evolves to adapt to changing
ensure alignment on project goals. needs and uncover new insights.
Document Clearly Foster Collaboration

Maintain comprehensive Facilitate collaborative workshops
documentation of requirements, and joint working sessions to
including acceptance criteria and encourage cross-functional team
traceability, to facilitate effective participation and cultivate a
communication and manage shared understanding of
scope changes. requirements.
Conclusion
As we conclude our exploration of requirements elicitation, let us
reflect on the key insights and best practices that will guide us
towards successful software development projects. The journey
ahead may present challenges, but with a steadfast commitment
to stakeholder engagement, iterative refinement, and
collaborative problem-solving, we can unlock the true potential
of our solutions.

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