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    The document discusses requirements elicitation, which is the process by which a business analyst gathers requirements from clients. Effective elicitation techniques include brainstorming, document analysis, focus groups, interviews, observation, prototyping, and surveys. Elicitation requires strong communication and organizational skills to understand client needs and communicate findings to decision makers. Incomplete or poor requirements, which result from ineffective elicitation, are a leading cause of software project failure and can lead to scope creep, over budgeting, and insufficient process redesign. Therefore, elicitation is necessary to ensure stakeholders clearly articulate business problems and requirements in order to define the right solution.

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    The document discusses requirements elicitation, which is the process by which a business analyst gathers requirements from clients. Effective elicitation techniques include brainstorming, document analysis, focus groups, interviews, observation, prototyping, and surveys. Elicitation requires strong communication and organizational skills to understand client needs and communicate findings to decision makers. Incomplete or poor requirements, which result from ineffective elicitation, are a leading cause of software project failure and can lead to scope creep, over budgeting, and insufficient process redesign. Therefore, elicitation is necessary to ensure stakeholders clearly articulate business problems and requirements in order to define the right solution.

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    The document discusses requirements elicitation, which is the process by which a business analyst gathers requirements from clients. Effective elicitation techniques include brainstorming, document analysis, focus groups, interviews, observation, prototyping, and surveys. Elicitation requires strong communication and organizational skills to understand client needs and communicate findings to decision makers. Incomplete or poor requirements, which result from ineffective elicitation, are a leading cause of software project failure and can lead to scope creep, over budgeting, and insufficient process redesign. Therefore, elicitation is necessary to ensure stakeholders clearly articulate business problems and requirements in order to define the right solution.

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    CHRISTINE M.

    ROBISO

    BSA-3RD Yr. (117046)

    REFLECTION PAPER AND SUMMARY ABOUT ELICITATION AND COLLABORATION

    The Business Analyst’s first responsibility is to gather requirements from the client. The key

    question that emerges now is how do they collect requirements from the client? A BA may use a variety

    of effective techniques to gather requirements. This include, Brainstorming, Document analysis, Focus

    Group, Interface Analysis, Interviews, Observation (job shadowing), Prototyping (storyboarding,

    navigation flow, paper prototyping, screen flows), Requirements workshops and Survey/questionnaire.

    Requirements elicitation is defined as the set of activities where information is given by

    stakeholders, users, and customers to be applied to the design of the initiative or the solution. During

    this phase, strong organizational and communication skills are required, as it is generally up to the BA to

    shape the information into models, diagrams, and other tools to communicate the findings to decision

    makers and team members. Effective requirements elicitation is a critical component of project success.

    Ironically, it is a process that many analysts overlook. This oversight can be costly to the project in terms

    of time and money, but it can also result in incomplete requirements or, worse, a failed project.

    Is elicitation necessary? The answer is unequivocally YES. Based on this example, “a Standish

    Group report identifies “incomplete requirements” as the leading cause of software project failure, with

    poor requirements accounting for 50% of project failures. Poor requirements are the result of poor

    elicitation, which can also result in scope creep, budget overruns, and insufficient process redesign.”

    Therefore, elicitation is important because many stakeholders are unable to articulate the

    business problem accurately. As a result, business analysts conducting the elicitation must ensure that
    the requirements generated are clearly understandable, useful, and relevant. A well-defined problem

    and clear requirements will help to create the right solution that adds value to the business.

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