Summary

If you've worked through this briefing study you should have a good feel for the benefits of and the need for:

• a structured
• coherent
• complementary
• self-validating..

..set of techniques for use during the stages of requirements analysis and specification in both feasibility and full studies.

You'll be familiar with the three data-centric views of a business system:

• function
• structure
• sequence

And you'll have understood that the breadth and depth to which you use the techniques varies from project to project. Art not science!

You'll have read examples of

• how and when the techniques are used
• how they cross validate each other

You'll have seen:

• how they are a good way of doing your investigation
• that their products form a structured central holding place for your analysis work at each step of the way
• how they start off skeletal..
• ..and are then fleshed out and firmed up as you and the users progress

If you're like me when I first started to be introduced to these techniques, you'll have lots of unanswered questions and you'll be wondering where to go next. If so, move on to the next slide.