1. Project Analysis Course
LECTURE 3
Project Analysis Course
H. Afsarmanesh
June 2012

2. Week 1
Selecting project topic
Environment information gathering - focused on project topic
Defining goals and scope (vision & mission) of the project (literature study about project)
Glossary development
Stakeholders identification (& user groups) 

3. – constituting problem statement –
Week 2
Designing /suggesting (textual or formal) a few potential use cases and/or scenario descriptions about project
– constituting problem statement –
[* brain storming at group level, and literature study on RE methodology]
Starting with discovery & elicitation process of requirements
Functional Requirements
Non-functional Requirements
System/domain Requirements, e.g.
DB system requirements
Distributed environment
Clouds
Starting with requirement understanding & analysis
Checking & understanding the elicited requirements

4. Requirements verification [* brain storming at group level]
Week 3
Requirement decomposition & prioritization [* brain storming at group level, assuming different stakeholder roles by group members]
Requirements verification [* brain storming at group level]
Considering (& describing) a new (or a changed) requirement
Reflecting & documenting all needed changes
(*starting at item 6 above) [* brain storming at group level]
Starting with specification/modelling of final requirements
Formalization (use UML)
Classes/objects diagrams

5. Continuing specification/modelling of requirements
Week 4
Continuing specification/modelling of requirements
Formalization (use UML)
Activity/state diagrams
Sequence diagrams
Finalization of project report (including lessons learned)
Preparation of final presentation