Requirements Analysis-Overview

Requirements analysis takes your elicited requirements and gives them a proper shape.
The output of  requirements analysis are:

• Assumptions and constraints
• Requirements structure
• Prioritized stakeholder requirements
• Verified stakeholder requirements
• Validate stakeholder requirements

Techniques to specify and model requirements are:

• Acceptance and evaluation criteria definition
• Business Rules analysis
• Data Dictionary and Glossary
• Data flow diagrams
• Data modelling  -  http://www.agiledata.org/essays/dataModeling101.html
• Functional Decomposition
• Interface Analysis
• Metrics and key performance indicators
• Non functional requirements analysis
• Organizational Modelling
• Process Modelling
• Prototyping
• Scenarios and Usecases
• Sequence diagrams
• User stories

Task List:

• Prioritizing Requirements
• Organizing requirements
• Specifying and modelling requirements
• Defining assumptions and constraints
• Verifying requirements
• Validating requirements

We shall go through each of the items in the task list in separate posts.