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Assignment On Requirement Gathering

The document provides a series of questions and tasks related to requirement gathering for a new inventory management system. It asks the assistant to review and improve interview questions, examine and restructure interview question sequences, critique an interview report, and redesign a paper questionnaire as a web survey. The tasks focus on analyzing requirement gathering techniques and providing recommendations to improve information elicitation from stakeholders.

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Assignment On Requirement Gathering

The document provides a series of questions and tasks related to requirement gathering for a new inventory management system. It asks the assistant to review and improve interview questions, examine and restructure interview question sequences, critique an interview report, and redesign a paper questionnaire as a web survey. The tasks focus on analyzing requirement gathering techniques and providing recommendations to improve information elicitation from stakeholders.

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Assignment on requirement gathering

Q1)
Here are five questions written by one of your systems analysis team members. Her
interviewee is the local manager of an outlet of a national discount chain, who has asked
you to work on a management information system to provide inventory information.
Review these questions for your team member.
1. When was the last time you thought seriously about your decision-making
process?
2. Who are the trouble makers in your store, I mean the ones who will show
the most resistance to changes in the system that I have proposed?
3. Are there any decisions you need more information about to make them?
4. You don’t have any major problems with the current inventory control
system, do you?
5. Tell me a little about the output you’d like to see.

a. Rewrite each question to be more effective in eliciting information.


b. Order your questions in either a pyramid, funnel, or diamond-shaped structure, and label the
questions with the name of the structure you used.
c. What guidelines can you give your team member for improving her interviewing questions
for the future? Make a list of them.
d. Write a series of six closed questions that cover the subject of decision-making style for the
manager described in the problem.
Q2)
Examine the interview structure presented in the sequencing of the following questions:

1. How long have you been in this position?


2. What are your key responsibilities?
3. What reports do you receive?
4. How do you view the goals of your department?
5. How would you describe your decision-making process?
6. How can that process best be supported?
7. How frequently do you make those decisions?
8. Who is consulted when you make a decision?
9. What is the one decision you make that is essential to departmental
functioning?

a. What structure is being used? How can you tell?


b. Restructure the interview by changing the sequence of the questions (you may
omit some if necessary). Label the reordered questions with the name of the
structure you have used.

Q3)

The following is the first interview report filed by one of your systems analysis team members:
“In my opinion, the interview went very well. The subject allowed me to talk with him
for an hour and a half. He told me the whole history of the business, which was very
interesting. The subject also mentioned that things have not changed all that much since
he has been with the firm, which is about 16 years. We are meeting again soon to finish
the interview, because we did not have time to go into the questions I prepared.”
a. In two paragraphs, critique the interview report. What critical information is
missing?
b. What information is extraneous to the interview report?
c. If what is reported actually occurred, what three suggestions do you have to help
your teammate conduct a better interview next time?
Q4)

Figure above is a questionnaire designed by an employee of Green Toe Textiles, which


specializes in manufacturing men’s socks. Di Wooly wrote the questionnaire because, as
the office manager at headquarters in Juniper, Tennessee, she is concerned with the
proposed purchase and implementation of a new computer system.
a. Provide a one-sentence critique for each question given.
b. In a paragraph, critique the layout and style in terms of white space used, room
for responses, ease of responding, and so on.
Q5)
Redesign the questionnaire above as a Web survey. Write a paragraph saying what changes were
necessary to accommodate users on the Web.

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