Hi community
I am co-running a requirements workshop for quite a typical intranet: Home area and Departmental sites team. I really want keep the meeting fairly business focussed ( so no HNSC discussions!) and ensure we capture the key requirements, ahead of my build phase.
I am thinking it would be great to have a number of documents to present/edit, so to capture business focussed requirements
- A spreadsheet to cover site columns, content types and meta data – I have got my first pre-filled draft of this
- A requirements table to which references at high level user story , id , intended audience and UI hints – is there a good example of word/pp/excel template for this? #notreinventingthewheel
- User Story in detail
- Test scripts to accompany User story
- ???
- Site Topology Visio diagram – quite good stencils out there as a starter
- potentially a bit of wireframe modelling tho I think this might be a bit too early for the team
Be interested to hear the thoughts of the community.
Daniel
I incorporate Mindjet Mind Manager (but any mind mapping software will work – like XMind for instance) into my requirements gathering sessions. It provides an interactive way to diagram the site structure and gather metadata requirements (columns, content types, etc.).
By projecting the mind map on a screen and recording the dialogue as it is happening, it gets people discussing the options and you can quickly move things around within the mind map to get agreement among stakeholders in the meeting – really increases the productivity of the time you have.
Ruven Gotz documented this in his book, “Practical SharePoint 2010 Information Architecture” – Proven tools and techniques for architecting successful SharePoint deployments. It’s a great read.
You can then turn the mindmap into a PDF and email it to the participants at the end of the meeting.
