In conducting requirements sessions there are various questioning technologies that have helped myself and teams at HP.
General Questions [1]
- What do you want?
- What will having X get you?
- How will you know you have X?
- What will getting X enable you to do?
Precision questions
- Why are we discussing this now?
- What do we mean?
- What are we assuming?
- How do we know this is true?
- What caused this?
- What will be the effects
- What should be done?
"Precision Questioning", Dennis Matthies, Stanford Bookstore, 800-533-2670, ext. 326
SMART requirements[2]. For a given requirement is it
- Specific?
- Measurable?
- Attainable?
- Realizable?
- Testable?
- Does it fit within our StrategicPlanning?