Requirements Gathering for Small Enterprises
Right-size the guidelines of your requirements gathering process.
- Strong business requirements are essential to solution delivery – inadequate requirements are the number one reason that projects fail.
- Organizations need a consistent, repeatable, and prescriptive set of guidelines that inform how business requirements gathering should be conducted.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
A successful requirements gathering practitioner is someone who has found balance between communication, documentation, collaboration, and control. For small enterprises, that balance should sway towards communication over documentation and collaboration over control.
Impact and Result
- Create a playbook that walks the practitioner through elicitation, analysis, and validation.
- Outline the degree of process rigor throughout these steps and shape your requirements gathering process to fit your common scenarios.