Competency information
Details
Document requirements and communicate the results of a system requirements gathering exercise in writing and verbally.
Considerations
- The importance of accurately defining the requirements of a system.
- Functional: what the product should do.
- Data requirements: capture the type, volatility, size/amount, persistence, accuracy and the amounts of the required data.
- Environmental requirements: (a) context of use; (b) social environment (e.g. collaboration and coordination): (c) how good is user support likely to be; (d) what technologies will it run on.
- User requirements: capture the characteristics of the intended user group.
- Usability requirement: usability goals associated measures for a particular product.
- Data gathering techniques, including questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, naturalistic observation, studying documentation.
- How to classify the task.
- How to identify an appropriate stakeholder group.
- Data interpretation and analysis.
- Use cases.
- Task descriptions.
- Task analysis.
- Requirements management.
- Requirement of description documents.
- Range of tools available.
- Benefits identification and measurement.
- Patient safety aspects of system design
- Usability and accessibility.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 2 | Outcome Perform a system requirements-gathering exercise, develop a specification of requirements and present findings in a functional requirement document to all stakeholders. |