Requirements Elicitation
Professionally Facilitated Sessions to Discover Agile or Traditional Requirements
Typical Engagements run 1-4 weeks
Engage senior IAG Business Analysis consultants to facilitate and manage Requirements Discovery Sessions.
We will work with your team to plan, schedule, and conduct in-person or virtual workshops with your business and technical subject-matter-experts.
This is what we are known for and what we do best. Count on us to deliver faster and better. We will ensure your stakeholders are happy and satisfied.
Typical Engagement
- Day 0
Planning call, review of existing materials, setup Teams and Mural workspaces - Day 1
Vision and Scoping Session with main stakeholders (9AM-12PM); Story Map Skeleton; Prioritized capabilities/features (high-level requirements); prepare/refine work plan and Kanban/Item Board - Days 2-4
Requirements Discovery Sessions (9AM-12PM)
Modeling, analysis, peer and client review work (1-5PM) - Day 5
Client Validation Review and Prioritization Session - Days 6-8
Requirements Discovery Sessions (mornings)
Modeling, analysis, peer and client review work (afternoons) - Day 9
Requirements Review, Validation and Prioritization - Day 10
Deliverable preparation and presentation
Work Products
Typical Mid-level Requirements Document including:
Vision and Scope Statements
Context Diagram
Conceptual Data Model
User Stories
Story Map
Process Models
Prioritized Requirements/Backlog Items
Use Cases
Data Definitions
Engagement Types and Deliverables
Business Requirements Discovery
High-level to detailed BRD
User Story Workshops
Story Map, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
Process Mapping
BPMN Diagrams, Workflows, User Guides, Playbooks, BPM
Use Case Workshops
Business or System Use Cases Models
Software Requirements
Functional Specs, SRS, SyRS
Requirements for Software Purchase or Outsourcing
RFP/RFQ with Vendor Selection Criteria
Engagement Options
Facilitation-only or our Paired-Analysis Team
Mentoring or Coaching Services
RDM Work Plan/DoR
Workshop Scheduling & Management
Peer and Client Review Sessions
Detailed Analysis, Verification & Validation
Prioritization
How Does it Work? What Would We Expect?
One Senior Consultant acts as the facilitator, leading the Requirements Discovery Sessions and keeping the sessions on-track.
Other Senior BA Consultants are responsible for the various models and work products and keeping the project on-track.
All sessions involve at least two of our consultants. This is known as paired analysis and, in addition to producing immediate and tangible results, both play an active role coaching & mentoring the IT analysts during the engagement.
IAG’s Requirements Consultants are seasoned experts in Business Analysis and Software Engineering best practices. We use specific methods and practices that have been proven to be effective at ensuring the meetings are focused and productive, and the resulting requirements specifications are clear and accurate.
IAG’s Requirements Elicitation service is a very productive and cost effective way to obtain high quality requirements documentation, extremely quickly, using specialized requirements facilitation and documentation experts.
