Questioning Skills - Requirements Elicitation

Dearest Readers,

Proper Questioning skills is the simple way to get more out of your Requirement Elicitation sessions.

Whenever you go ahead with the Requirements Questioning sessions, you need to make better use of yours and your stake holder's Time. A critical part of preparing for Requirements Elicitation is identifying a list of SMART questions. 

Would you be interested in learning a simple technique for improving your stakeholder meetings?

Without writing anything further, I am providing you the below Picture which would help you in easy understanding  so that you can use it in your future Requirements Gathering processes.

Picture: Questioning Skills for Requirements Elicitation

So did you get anything from the above picture :) ?

There are broad range of questions which can be asked in the requirements gathering sessions to understand the Business Requirements clearly. With the help of all these "What", "Why", "When", "How", "Where" and "Who" related questions you can collect clear requirements from your Stakeholders.

Note: The Questions listed in each of the Categories in the above image are just sample Questions. You can frame your own questions relevant to your Project.

One more tips for you guys: While eliciting and documenting the requirements, always make sure that all the Requirements follow the SMART Rule. Refer the below picture for more details.

Picture: SMART Rules for Requirements

Though this is one of the basic posts related to Business Analysis Concepts, I hope it would help you all in your future work. 

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