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Direct Methods Of: Business Definition & Requirements Analysis

The document discusses several direct methods for gathering user input during requirements analysis, including individual face-to-face interviews, telephone interviews or surveys, focus groups, facilitated team workshops, observational field studies, requirements prototyping, user-interface prototyping, and card sorting for websites. Some key advantages of direct methods are hearing user comments firsthand and allowing immediate follow up, while disadvantages include time and cost.

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Direct Methods Of: Business Definition & Requirements Analysis

The document discusses several direct methods for gathering user input during requirements analysis, including individual face-to-face interviews, telephone interviews or surveys, focus groups, facilitated team workshops, observational field studies, requirements prototyping, user-interface prototyping, and card sorting for websites. Some key advantages of direct methods are hearing user comments firsthand and allowing immediate follow up, while disadvantages include time and cost.

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DIRECT METHODS OF Belinda Jhalkee


BUSINESS DEFINITION & Divya Greeshma

REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS Michelle Kamakshi


Arshi
ADVANTAGES OF DIRECT
METHODS
 Hear the user’s comments in person and firsthand

 Person-to-person encounters allow immediately follow up on vague or incomplete


data.
SOME RECOMMENDED
DIRECT METHODS FOR
GETTING USER INPUT
INDIVIDUAL FACE-TO-FACE
INTERVIEW
 It may be structured or somewhat open-ended
 Not a formal questionnaire
 Useful topics are:
 The activities to be performed
 The methods to be used
 What interactions exist with other people or systems?
 Potential measures of system usability
 Unmentioned exceptions to standard policies or procedures
 Relevant knowledge the user must possess to perform the activity
INDIVIDUAL FACE-TO-FACE
INTERVIEW
When designing a website for User:
 Present a site outline or proposal and then solicit comments
 Ask users to describe situations for use of proposed Website
 Ask users to describe pros and cons of potential competitors
 Ask users to describe how particular Web site tasks should be accomplished.
INDIVIDUAL FACE-TO-FACE
INTERVIEW
Advantages
 You can give the user your full attention
 Easily include follow-up questions
 More time to discuss topics in detail
 Deeper understanding of your users
Disadvantages
 Can be costly and time consuming
 Someone skilled in interviewing techniques is required
TELEPHONE INTERVIEW OR
SURVEY
Advantages
 Arranging interview in advance allows user to prepare for it
 Less expensive and less invasive than personal interviews
 Can be used much more frequently and are effective
Disadvantages
 Impossible to gather contextual information
 May be difficult to contact the right person for the telephone interview
TRADITIONAL FOCUS GROUP

A small group of users and a moderator


brought together to verbally discuss the
requirements.
FACILITATED TEAM
WORKSHOP
A facilitated, structured workshop held
with users to obtain requirements
information. Similar to the traditional
Focus Group. Like focus groups, they
do require a great deal of time to
organize and run.
OBSERVATIONAL FIELD
STUDY
• Users are observed and monitored for Disadvantages:
an extended time to learn what they do
 Time-consuming
• good insight into tasks being
performed, working environment and  Expensive
conditions
• Video recording of the observation
sessions will permit detailed task
analysis
Requirements Prototyping User-Interface Prototyping
A demo, or very early prototype, is A demo, or early prototype, is presented
presented to users for comments to users to uncover user-interface issues
concerning functionality. and problems
CARD SORTING FOR WEB
SITES
 A technique to establish groupings of
information for Web sites.
 content topics are placed on
individual index cards
 assists in building the site’s structure,
map, and page content.

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