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Ian Graham is principal consultant and
technical director at
Trireme International.
His most recent book is A Pattern
Language for Web Usability.

Contact him at ian@ trireme.com.

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What Skills a requirements analyst
needs?
Prerequisite skills.

The core skills.

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Prerequisite Skills

Requirements Engineer needs to know how to do

three things

1. He/she must be able to understand and

structure the problems.

2. Construct and test the models of these

problems and possible solutions.

3. Communicate.

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Prerequisite Skills

1. Communication

2. Culture

Eg.
If you want to build a system for a bank, you must
understand the culture of that institution and of banks
in general.

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The core skills

Learn to model
● Modeling is a critical skill

● Learn UML

● Practice techniques for problem analysis

● Try use cases

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Understand your client

● Learn as much as you can about his/her business.

● Mug-up on the jargon.

● Don't afraid to ask “stupid questions”.

● Always discuss business objectives before

modeling anything else.

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Think laterally
Requirement Engineering is about communication with

● Clients

● Developers

● When structuring the problem, try to draw

inspiration from different domains.

● Be creative

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“Guys, get in touch with your feminine side”

Women are expected to be more attentive to

● Character

● Emotional motivation

● Relationships
and

Better listeners

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Girls, “Be a man”

Grate Listeners

Technical Skills

“Have a opinion and state it”.

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Learn a discipline
“The best requirement analyst were not
Computer Scientist”.

Reading literature

Getting knowledge about the relevant

culture

“Read more...”

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Improve your social skills

Book worms make poor business analysts if

they can't TALK

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Conclusion

What Skills s requirements engineer or

Business Analyst needs.

More lateral thinking

Better language skills

Stimulating creativity

Modeling

and improve the other skills like....

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Reference

“The Compleat Requirements

Analyste”

by

Ian Graham

November/December 2003 IEEE

SOFTWARE
Thank You