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ICTICT509: GATHER DATA TO INDENTIFY BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
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GATHER DATA TO INDENTIFY BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
Introduction
XYZ Cosmetics Company sells fashion and cosmetics accessories with four outlets sales
in Sydney. Also the company has a website that provide details about its products and sell
module. The organization clients can’t purchase products but they can get details about a
product. Due to increase in competition the company has decided to add online purchase on to
their website. As a software consultant this monogram will list how to go about gathering
information to identify business requirements. This will assist in selecting the best software
development methodology for building an online purchase module.
Gathering data to identify business requirements
Gaining an understanding of an organization, and the environment in which it operates in
is a very important aspect before starting the process of software development. Gathering of data
and information of the entity assists in assessing risks thus providing guidance to software
developers. The issue is before embarking on the process of software development, the software
developers must choose the best software development methodology which can only be done
after gathering business requirements of the organization 1.
Information sources
Analyzing the existing business documents can prove to be a useful technique in data
gathering. By reviewing the current organization documentation and process can assists in
understanding business requirements. One of the information sources which needs review is the
existing documentation of the current website. This document will provide information of all the
features of the current website. Second, by reviewing documentation of website, it will assists
the software developer in identifying the software methodology which was employed when
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building the website. Third, it assists in identifying the current functional requirements of site
thus able to define the current exact functionality of the website. It will also assists in knowing
the website environment i.e. the software developers will in a position to know where the
website is hosted, the server version and name, the URL used to access the website, the actual
server location, and the path directory of the codes. It will assist in establishing the type of
scripting language which was used to develop the site, the server side language, and point of
contact of the website administrator.
Another information source is the company policy documents. This will assists the
software developers in identifying the current procedure implemented by the Company on
payment. It will also help in knowing the available online payment methods and procedures.
Information data gathering technique
There are various methods which one can employ to gather information but in this case
the best techniques to be adopted are survey, observations, reviewing of the existing documents,
and interviews. Survey is a technique which is used to find data and information by visiting
relatable places where the company website is being viewed and the places where online
purchase has been implemented. In addition, survey will in this case incorporate the use of
questionnaires. This will incorporate the use of both closed and open ended questions.
Questionnaires will provide a quick way to gather massive amount of information and data about
how users assess the current website, some of the issues there are experiencing and what they
expect from the new feature which is to be incorporated. In addition, the software developers
needs to create a FAQ page in the current website which will act as a means of learning new
website packages and the current technology. FAQ in this case will act as type an open-ended
questionnaire, which will assists the software developers in gaining an in-depth analysis of the
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