Comments on: How to become more confident in requirements elicitation http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/how-to-become-more-confident-in-requirements-elicitation-confidence/ Advance Your Business Analysis Career Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:08:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Wilco Charité http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/how-to-become-more-confident-in-requirements-elicitation-confidence/comment-page-1/#comment-10705 Wilco Charité Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:24:06 +0000 http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/?p=1612#comment-10705 Reacting on Chris burd's first comment, i would like to say, does anyone of you commenters, use Mindmapping on paper as a way of taking notes. I picked it up last year and seems very useful. In stead of linear notetaking notes appear as a kind of graphic, a picture. In my environment, i hardly see anyone do this. For me, it works. It is an outline of thoughts, it is less writing while listening (more focus on what is told) and working out details can be done a little later while everything told in the meeting is still fresh. Try it. Reacting on Chris burd’s first comment, i would like to say, does anyone of you commenters, use Mindmapping on paper as a way of taking notes. I picked it up last year and seems very useful. In stead of linear notetaking notes appear as a kind of graphic, a picture. In my environment, i hardly see anyone do this. For me, it works. It is an outline of thoughts, it is less writing while listening (more focus on what is told) and working out details can be done a little later while everything told in the meeting is still fresh. Try it.

]]> By: Laura Brandenburg http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/how-to-become-more-confident-in-requirements-elicitation-confidence/comment-page-1/#comment-6599 Laura Brandenburg Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:06:02 +0000 http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/?p=1612#comment-6599 Hi Sergey, It's never too late to leave comments. These posts are meant to be living documents that help people when they need them! I would partially agree with you. Sometimes in asking these questions we will get personal opinions, other times informed statements of how the project fits into an organizational context. It's our job as the BA to validate the information we glean from the conversation and use it appropriately to guide our efforts. I suggest eliciting an executive perspective because it can help you ensure your project stays on track and resolve other stakeholder conflicts. I can certainly appreciate that you've had experiences working with executives who bring forth narrow perspectives and value saving their jobs over successful projects. But I would not support this as a generalization of all executives -- there are some good ones out there. Hi Sergey, It’s never too late to leave comments. These posts are meant to be living documents that help people when they need them!

I would partially agree with you. Sometimes in asking these questions we will get personal opinions, other times informed statements of how the project fits into an organizational context. It’s our job as the BA to validate the information we glean from the conversation and use it appropriately to guide our efforts. I suggest eliciting an executive perspective because it can help you ensure your project stays on track and resolve other stakeholder conflicts.

I can certainly appreciate that you’ve had experiences working with executives who bring forth narrow perspectives and value saving their jobs over successful projects. But I would not support this as a generalization of all executives — there are some good ones out there.

]]> By: Sergey http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/how-to-become-more-confident-in-requirements-elicitation-confidence/comment-page-1/#comment-6595 Sergey Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:47:39 +0000 http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/?p=1612#comment-6595 Hi, Laura Just bumped into your article, decided to share my thoughts although it is obviously late to do. I took a refreshing course on business consulting a couple of weeks ago and, reading your lines, picked one line up because it is just out of the crowd :"Drop by an executive’s office ... and ask for what they value the most in the project". This exactly the case where you are about to get a personal opinion of an executive rather than the actual requirement. My experience of working for large companies shows this outcome. The biggest prize for the excutive in the project is to save their position in the case of a disaster, when all went fine - get the crown for leading to success. A value is just somethere in between, unfortunately. Would you agree with me? SK Hi, Laura

Just bumped into your article, decided to share my thoughts although it is obviously late to do.
I took a refreshing course on business consulting a couple of weeks ago and, reading your lines, picked one line up because it is just out of the crowd :”Drop by an executive’s office … and ask for what they value the most in the project”.
This exactly the case where you are about to get a personal opinion of an executive rather than the actual requirement. My experience of working for large companies shows this outcome. The biggest prize for the excutive in the project is to save their position in the case of a disaster, when all went fine – get the crown for leading to success.
A value is just somethere in between, unfortunately.
Would you agree with me?

SK

]]> By: Laura Brandenburg http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/how-to-become-more-confident-in-requirements-elicitation-confidence/comment-page-1/#comment-5230 Laura Brandenburg Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:48:15 +0000 http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/?p=1612#comment-5230 Hi Steve, Just finding this comment that escaped me last year. This is a tough one for me to answer authoritatively. I suppose the closest answer I have is that as I'm modeling, I stay focused on the question we are trying to answer and make sure that the level of detail helps cast "just enough" information to keep us focused on that question or problem. Laura Hi Steve,

Just finding this comment that escaped me last year. This is a tough one for me to answer authoritatively. I suppose the closest answer I have is that as I’m modeling, I stay focused on the question we are trying to answer and make sure that the level of detail helps cast “just enough” information to keep us focused on that question or problem.

Laura

]]> By: steve blais http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/how-to-become-more-confident-in-requirements-elicitation-confidence/comment-page-1/#comment-4216 steve blais Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:16:59 +0000 http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/?p=1612#comment-4216 Can you elaborate on the level of detail in the models? That is, can you provide a greater level of detail in your explanation? Can you elaborate on the level of detail in the models? That is, can you provide a greater level of detail in your explanation?

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