www.techsailor.c om Proper Requirement gathering & Rapid Prototyping by Aurobindo Nayak & Jitendra Da 24 Nov 2011 REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS & RAPID PROTOTYPING • A brief introduction to the latest Tools and Techniques used in the Industry for Rapid Prototyping & Requirement Analysis and Document Creation.
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PROTOTYPING• A brief introduction to the latest Tools and Techniques used in the Industry for
Rapid Prototyping & Requirement Analysis and Document Creation.
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Agenda
• Overview of Requirement gathering and analysis.
• The need of Prototyping in current business scenario.
• Classic methods VS Current automation Tools. Brief Description of Prototyping Tools available in the market.
Evaluation of pros and cons of these tools.
Questions & Answers
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Why Prototype?
• Requirement gathering involves gathering of all necessary information related to the system we wish to implement.
• Prototyping is a fairly new concept that is catching up with business worldwide as organizations struggle to improve client interaction & user interface design.
• Prototyping supports the entire design Lifecycle :- a). It’s a communication tool b). Better Client Approvals / Buy In c). Developer Walkthrough d). Live Document
Prototyping saves money and resources while mitigating the risk factors associated. Since, we can know beforehand how the system will look in essence, we can always prevent faulty designs while building actual Systems.
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Pens n paper VS Tools
Modern Prototyping Tools: Use ready-made designs, can
generate document specifications and easily order the process of
requirement gathering. We are briefly going to describe 2 of
these tools which are accepted as Industry Standards.
Axure RP Pro: Create your own reusable design elements,
Masters, Graphic Content and best of all auto generated HTML
codes which can be referred by developers. It also has the
functionality to generate Specifications documents.
Activities to Interfaces, Create Dummy Databases and it also
provides facility for project management & Document
generation.
Previously all work of requirement gathering, prototyping, and UX Designing was done using pen and paper. It worked well, excepting the fact it took a lot of time.
Serena Prototype Composer enables application designers to create wireframes, activity diagrams, prototypes, and specifications for stand alone applications. It
also features a dummy database that can be used for ‘Fetch’ features.
What can Serena do?
Interface Elements: Use ready-made widgets
including buttons, form fields, shapes, which
can be used to create a simple clickable
interface. Link all these widgets using a
familiar go to feature.
Panels: Create your own custom panels within
the page to create divisions automatically and
set everything within a grid based structure.
Wireframe
With Serena Prototype Composer creating, wireframes using activity diagrams is fast and effective, allowing you to focus on the process flow & design interface rather than documentation.
With Serena Prototype Composer, creating interactive, prototypes is done by using Activity diagrams which also act as a process flow graph.
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Instant Documentation: Generate functional
specifications to Microsoft Word format in
seconds complete with screenshots,
annotations, and interactions.
XML Generation: All specifications generated
are in xml format so that it is easily
transferrable over the web.
Separate Document Generation: Serena has
the facility to separate process flow documents
from activity flow documents, Interface
Documents etc..
Specifications
With Serena Prototype Composer, generate easy-to-read, customizable functional specifications that document the entire Activity Flow and Database interactions within the linked Interfaces.