Collaborate with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision.
Clearly identify project stakeholders and establish user classes, as well as their characteristics.
Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
Identify and establish scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
Work with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements.
Research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.
?Acquisition & Deployment
Assist in conducting research on software and hardware products to meet agreed upon requirements and to support purchasing efforts.
Participate in the QA of purchased solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized.
Participate in the selection of any requirements documentation software solutions that the organization may opt to use.
?Operational Management
Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
Develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.
Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team.
Where applicable, develop prototypes of interfaces and attributes based on the user requirements.
Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
Develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.
Assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options, and communicating these back to the business stakeholders.
Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.
Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements? verbally or through written documentation ? to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.
Provide guidance and/or instruction to junior staff members.
