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Beena V Katekar wonders: <<Is any (technwriter) one from the list is been
involved in the requirement analysis stage of the project?>>
Not to any great scale, but I've dabbled. My verdict? This is one of those
things that seems Terribly Imposing and Complicated until you actually think
about it. Requirements analysis comes down to a single question: "What do
our users want to do with the product?" Having established that, the easy
part is over. Now you have to list the features that will let them
accomplish that goal. Your huge asset as a writer is that you usually know
better what people want to do with a product, and how they want to do it,
than the developers do. Believe it or not.
If you start with the what and how, it becomes much easier to define the
features. If you start with the features, you lose sight of what and how.
The biggest problems in modern software development seems to be that
managers get so excited about the features list that they lose sight of the
requirements: What do users want to do with the product? How do they want to
do it? Any feature that doesn't support these goals should be sidelined
until the features that do support these goals are foolproof and usable.
--Geoff Hart, geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada
580 boul. St-Jean
Pointe-Claire, Que., H9R 3J9 Canada
"Wisdom is one of the few things that look bigger the further away it
is."--Terry Pratchett
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