Write the Right Requirements by Eric Riz - SPTechCon

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Improve Performance

• Increase employee connectedness

and interactivity

• Workspace and mobile connectivity

• Collaboration

Connect Teams

• Increase business velocity

• Decrease business risk with

informed decisions

• Reduce cost by using a single

platform

• Right information to right people

• Secure data management with

built-in controls

• Customizable dashboards

Surface Information

A. Small (50 employees)

B. Medium business (500 employees)

C. Large/Enterprise (more than 500 employees)

A. SharePoint 2003

B. SharePoint 2007

C. SharePoint 2010

D. SharePoint 2013

Other?Other?Other?Other?

IT Pro SharePoint Analyst

Project Manager

Developer End User

Requirements analysis in systems engineering

and software engineering, encompasses those

tasks that go into determining the needs or

conditions to meet for a new or altered

product, taking account of the possibly

conflicting requirements of the various

stakeholders, such as beneficiaries or users. It

is an early stage in the more general activity of

requirements engineering which encompasses

all activities concerned with eliciting,

analyzing, documenting, validating and

managing software or system requirements.

- Wikipedia

Requirements analysis in systems engineering

and software engineering, encompasses those

tasks that go into determining the needs or

conditions to meet for a new or altered

product, taking account of the possibly

conflicting requirements of the various

stakeholders, such as beneficiaries or users. It

is an early stage in the more general activity of

requirements engineering which encompasses

all activities concerned with eliciting,analyzing, documenting, validating andmanaging software or system requirements.

- Wikipedia

Requirements Gathering

How Many Triangles?

Who Knows Baseball?

A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

x = cost of ball

cost of bat = x + 1

total cost = 1.10 = x + (x + 1) = 2x + 1

2x = 0.10

x = 0.05

Audience Participation

Draw This4

The

Requirements

Madness

Why?

Mission

Vision

Objectives

What? Where?

New Capabilities

Strategies

Goals

How? Who? When?

Competencies

Business Process

Project Management

Remember this…

Things that are wanted or needed

Documented standards and written statements

Capabilities needed to solve a problem

Conditions of a delivered system, services, product, or process

Constraints on the system, service, product, or process

Verbal, informal statements or conversations in hallways

Solutions that state how to solve the problem or meet the objectives

Characteristics of other systems, services, products, or processes

Project budgets, plans, or implementation details

Remember the BUS

System

• Hardware

• Operating System

• Software/Hardware Requirements

User

• Focused on the individual

• There’s no I in team

• But there is in Raise!

Business• Organizational Focus

• Business Needs

• Strategic Objectives

Remember the BUS

B

MUST

27%

U

S

Put on a Show

SharePoint High School

Tell them what you’re going to say

SAY ITTell them what you said4

What are they building?

This is our Strategy

Definitive Goals

Implementation Components

Seamless User Interface

Concise Office Integration

Access Information Anywhere

How can I Connect and Empower

People

AssetsFinance

Work

Pretty Pictures

Don’t Be Fooled

Things are Happening

…Balance

Q & A

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