Requirements Gathering: The Learning Curve
When you start a new job, even if you are an expert with lots of experience in the domain in which you new employer work, you have to learn. Sometimes the learning curve is small, sometimes long – in any case there is always a learning curve. In a healthy environment, there is bi-directional learning process. You will learn your new job, but you will also teach your experiences to your co-workers and employer. Everyone has something to give back. The same aspect can be also considered for an analyst who’s task is to gather requirements from a new client. The learning experience is also two-way, since users do also learn, or will learn, from the analyst. [1] In order to explain the introduction of this blog better, let’s discuss a scenario: Dexter, our fictitious analyst, is assigned to analyse the stock control requirements of Store-n-Sell Limited, our fictitious client. When Dexter meets Tony, the store manager for Store-n-Sell, Tony explains t...
