1. CIS 210 Systems Analysis and Development
Week 3 Part II
Determining System Requirements ,

2. Objectives Upon completion of part I you will be able to:
Understand and be able to explain the concepts related to designing and conducting interviews and developing a plan for determining system requirements
Understand and be able to explain the concepts related to designing, distributing and analyzing questionnaires
Understand and be able to explain the concepts related to advantages and pitfalls of observing workers and analyzing business documents in determining system requirements
Understand and be able to explain the concepts related to a joint application design session
Understand and be able to explain the concepts related to the use of prototyping to determine system requirements
Understand and be able to explain the concepts related to using requirements determination techniques in developing web applications

3. Overview Systems Analysis Requirements determination
Requirements structure

4. Requirements Determination
Process of Determining Requirements
Analyst characteristics
Impertinence
Impartiality
Relax constraints
Attention to details
Reframing
Deliverables and outcomes
All information gather
Understanding of organizational components

5. Determining Requirements
Traditional Methods
Interviewing and Listening
Guidelines for effective interviewing
Choosing interview questions
Open-ended
Closed-ended
Interviewing Groups
Nominal Group Technique
Directly Observing Users
Analyzing procedures and Other Documents

6. Determining Requirements
Contemporary Methods
JAD
Structure of role and agenda
Separate location
Participants in a JAD
Group support systems
Potential benefits
CASE tools
Upper CASE
Prototyping
Circumstances lending themselves to prototyping

7. Summary Requirements Determination Process
Traditional Requirements Determination Methods
Contemporary Requirements Determination Methods