Presented at SHARE Conf 2012 Australia More resources: http://spgur.us/Rk090k

1. How to Best Develop Requirements
for SharePoint Projects
DUX RAYMOND SY, PMP MVP
,
Managing Partner, Innovative-e (USA)
Resources: http://spgur.us/Rk090k

4. Agenda

5. Activity
• Individually, list 3 key challenges you have with
requirements for SharePoint projects
• As a group:
• Introduce each other
• Discuss your challenges
• Identify the top 3 challenges for the group

6. Agenda

7. Requirements Focus

8. Example: Defining Business Need
For example, how often someone in
finance have to deal with collecting
a bunch of Excel files regularly and
consolidate it to a single
management report?

9. Example: Mapping Requirements
• Business requirements
– SharePoint shall increase Finance department’s productivity by 15%
• User requirements
– The user shall be able to retrieve & synchronize project expense
information in SharePoint from Excel without relying on email
• System requirements
– Microsoft Excel shall be able to synchronize information with a
SharePoint site

10. How Do You Develop Requirements
• Requirements development is iterative
– Business
– User
– System
• Key Steps
– Requirements Elicitation
– Analyzing Requirements
– Validating Requirements
– Documenting Requirements

12. Agenda

13. Questions?

14. Gold
Partners:
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