Chapter 5
Chapter 5 - Investigating the Work
Q-1 What is trawling the Business?
Ans: Trawling is the activity of investigating. It is central to the requirements process. Although, in general, trawling is a method of fishing but, in the context of business, it's used methodologically to catch every possible requirement. Once the blastoff is completed, the business analysts start trawling the work to learn and understand its functionality. It uses the outputs of blastoff activity as its starting point for investigating the work and accumulating knowledge about it. Business Analysts use many trawling techniques to discover the true nature of work.
Q-2 What is Brown Cow Model?
Ans: The Brown Cow Model is a way of reducing the complexity of systems modelling by dividing the model's viewpoints. The Brown Cow Model illustrates four points of view that help to uncover the real business problem and identify useful innovations. The four quadrants which are - What-Now, What-Future, How-Now, and How-Future show the different viewpoints of work.
Q-3 What are Business Use Case Workshops?
Ans: The business use case workshop records the proposed functionality using scenarios and sketched prototypes. The workshop serves as a forum for interested stakeholders to communicate effectively, express their understanding, ask questions, and give their aspirations for the work. BUC workshops are useful to most projects, and are the most commonly used requirements technique. These workshops look at one slice of the business with the objective of finding the ideal work. These workshops are particularly useful when you are making fundamental changes to the work.
Q-4 What are prototypes in Business Requirements Gathering and what are its types?
Ans: A prototype is a quick and dirty representation of a potential product - probably only part of the product. It is intended to present the user with some kind of simulation of the requirements. There are two approaches to building requirements prototypes: High-Fidelity prototypes use specialized software tools and result in a partially working piece of software, and Low-Fidelity prototypes use pencil and paper, whiteboards, or some other familiar means. Teams generally like using the Low-Fidelity prototypes because they can generate them quickly and the users enjoy the spontaneous nature and inventiveness of these prototypes.
Q-5 What is meant by Murder Book?
Ans: The murder book is a collection of documents and models generated by the requirements discovery project. Just as detectives often solve murders by going back through the murder book, so the business analyst can often find wonderfully useful material from the project murder book.Every document, interview note, model, mind map, user story, and paper prototype is added to the murder book. Artifacts are added in chronological order in this book.
Ans: The Brown Cow Model is a way of reducing the complexity of systems modelling by dividing the model's viewpoints. The Brown Cow Model illustrates four points of view that help to uncover the real business problem and identify useful innovations. The four quadrants which are - What-Now, What-Future, How-Now, and How-Future show the different viewpoints of work.
Ans: The business use case workshop records the proposed functionality using scenarios and sketched prototypes. The workshop serves as a forum for interested stakeholders to communicate effectively, express their understanding, ask questions, and give their aspirations for the work. BUC workshops are useful to most projects, and are the most commonly used requirements technique. These workshops look at one slice of the business with the objective of finding the ideal work. These workshops are particularly useful when you are making fundamental changes to the work.
Q-4 What are prototypes in Business Requirements Gathering and what are its types?
Ans: A prototype is a quick and dirty representation of a potential product - probably only part of the product. It is intended to present the user with some kind of simulation of the requirements. There are two approaches to building requirements prototypes: High-Fidelity prototypes use specialized software tools and result in a partially working piece of software, and Low-Fidelity prototypes use pencil and paper, whiteboards, or some other familiar means. Teams generally like using the Low-Fidelity prototypes because they can generate them quickly and the users enjoy the spontaneous nature and inventiveness of these prototypes.
Q-5 What is meant by Murder Book?
Ans: The murder book is a collection of documents and models generated by the requirements discovery project. Just as detectives often solve murders by going back through the murder book, so the business analyst can often find wonderfully useful material from the project murder book.Every document, interview note, model, mind map, user story, and paper prototype is added to the murder book. Artifacts are added in chronological order in this book.
There are many different trawling techniques. The technique you should use in any given situation depends on several factors. The first, and most important, is that you feel comfortable with the technique. Always use techniques with which you and your stakeholders are comfortable. The best results come when you and the people you are dealing with feel at ease with the way you are working together to discover requirements. If a technique is not working for you, then try a different one.
ReplyDeleteIn the brown cow model How Now is the place to start in most of the times and it shows the implementation of the work as it currently exists. Which includes physical artifacts, people that are used to do the work. What Now shows the real business policy or the essence of the work. Future What shows the business as your owner want to have it in the future but still with technical neutrality that being used to implement that business. Future How shows the future business policy with the use of technology that being used to implement it.
ReplyDeleteAlthough there are many useful tools or techniques used for investigating the work area, I think the Brown Cow model is the easiest to observe and follow. What interesting about this model is not only at its name but also what information it presents. Those information include currently existing works, the essence of the work, the proposed future state of the business area and the product use case scenarios. This kind of model is extremely useful for a business analyst to visualize and manage the work and for stakeholders to keep track of what is happening in the project. A business analyst should clearly understand this kind of model in order to use and present it properly.
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