Why Requirement Gathering Can Kill Your Project, III
Difficulties in Compromise
Because it is difficult to gain access to business users, IT makes many of the systems compromises alone. Thus business users are delivered a system which they say is not what they wanted.
Difficulties in Reaching Decisions
We are minimally trained in the art translating information from one source to another. As a result meeting discussions tend to move around in circles, move off on tangents, or worse lack a clear purpose of discussion. Add the complication of system development to the mix and you can find yourself going nowhere
These factors can certainly be changed. With experiments and varying tactics being used in the requirement gathering process, some companies have been more successful in completing projects under time and under budget. These changes and advancements are discussed will be discusses in my next blog series.
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Written by John Livermore - Multi-site Project Management
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