Demand engineering through interview method

Interview method:

• Interview
• Group interview

Interview process:

• Prepare before the interview
• Get in interview
  • Control and records during the interview
• Post-interview analysis
  • Needs sorting after the interview
    • Review and sort
    • Summary interview information
    • Complete interview report

Meeting minutes
Questionnaire distribution
Interview summary

The completion process of the interview report:

• Interview report format sample table
  • Interview ID
  • Interviewer
  • Interviewee
  • Meeting date
  • Meet the subject
  • Meet the goal
  • Talking points
  • Interviewee's point of view
  • The goal of the next meeting

note：

• Not all projects are suitable for the interview method. If there are too many customers, the survey method is suitable.
• It ’s not just a meeting. It ’s a progressive process.
• With the increase in the number of interviews, the interview report format sample table gradually improves the requirements and details

Demand list (range data): (After the interview, organize the requirements to become the demand list)

• Functional requirements list
  • ID（URn）
  • Requirements content
  • Questions and knowledge
  • priority
• Performance requirements list
  • Category (speed, capacity, load, real-time)
  • ID（PRn）
  • Requirements content

Two ways to discover quality attributes: (invisible demand)

• Requirements engineers check the functional requirements of each item against the quality attributes of the software and try their best to determine the possibility of the existence of quality attributes
• Adjectives and adverbs used in user descriptions often mean the existence of quality attributes

Quality attribute requirement list:

• ID（QRn）
• Features (functionality, portability, maintainability, efficiency, reliability, availability)
• Requirements content

Advantages of interview method:

• Simple, low cost
• Extensive content
• Establish a friendly relationship with the meeting

Disadvantages of the interview method:

• Time-consuming interview
• Interviews are difficult to achieve in many situations
• High requirements for interpersonal skills of demand engineers
• Many issues affect the interview results