Requirements Capture Methods and Tools

How to capture requirements for the many aspects of DAM system, process and organizational design from the fewest number of sources with minimal capture and analysis cycles accurately and consistently

Purpose

DAM projects rely on a range of requirements inputs – metadata and taxonomy design, workflow design, standards, systems implementation and configuration, infrastructure, UI, organizational change management, ROI benchmarking and so on. Minimizing survey, interview and testing cycles among the fewest number of user groups is essential to maintain realistic schedules and stay within budgets. Well-designed and multi-faceted data collection methodology allows simultaneous capture of multiple requirements from the same high- knowledge sources. This approach preserves the crucial relationships between requirements sets, produces greater consistency and often reduces capture efforts by rendering sufficient data to deduce or strongly imply answers to many research threads that’s reliable enough to use.

Learning Outcomes

Clarity in how to develop well-designed multi-faceted requirements capture strategy and the core requirements sets and relationships between them.

Confidence is methodology, tools, practical short cuts and real-world expectations of data to produce requirements that when fulfilled achieve intended outcomes.