Requirements Elicitation

Question 1

Apprenticing

Answer 1

Getting the stakeholder to teach you what they know and how they do something.
And then try it yourself.

Question 2

Observe

Answer 2

Watching the stakeholders carry out a task.

Question 3

Recount (aka Interview)

Answer 3

Asking a stakeholder to recount their experiences and what they do.

Question 4

Enact

Answer 4

Recreate the task and carry it out yourself to make observations.

Question 5

Document

Answer 5

Use existing documentation to guide parts of the project or gather requirements. This may be in the form of data dictionaries etc (past question)

Question 6

Requirements elicitation

Answer 6

The elicitation process is a set of methods (techniques) that allow you to gather requirements for a project
from various stakeholders.

Question 7

Tacit knowledge

Answer 7

Knowing-how and knowledge of experience. Knowledge embedded in the human mind through
experience and jobs. Personal wisdom and experience, context-specific, more difficult to extract and codify. Tacit knowledge Includes insights, intuitions.

Question 8

Explicit knowledge

Answer 8

Knowing-that. Knowledge codified and digitized in books, documents, reports, memos, etc.
Documented information that can facilitate action. Knowledge what is easily identified, articulated, shared and employed.