Collect Requirements

Start with stakeholder needs

Begin with the mind map that describes sitting down with project stakeholders to understand their needs. It also introduces ways to collect information, including interviews, focus groups, facilitated workshops and brainstorming. Use its branches to see the methods together before looking at them in more detail.

Next, look at a map that brings together the plans and records used in Collect Requirements. The listed maps mention the scope management plan, requirements management plan, stakeholders management plan, stakeholders register and project charter.

Explore techniques and categories

After the overview, compare the maps on data collection techniques. Their excerpts mention reviewing historical records, expert interviews and acceptance criteria. The note on Collect Requirements techniques offers another format to use alongside the maps.

A map on requirement categories asks how a product should work and what will make it effective. It includes functional, nonfunctional and solution requirements. Use it after the collection techniques to look at how requirements can be described.

Use maps and a quiz together

This page has no listed quizzes. You can make your own quiz with a free account, then use a mind map to check the topics and terms you want to include. For example, questions could cover the collection methods or the plans named in a map.

After taking your quiz, return to the relevant branches of the map and compare your answers with the resource. You can also study the maps without making a quiz.

Place the topic in its unit

Collect Requirements is one section of Project Scope Management in Business administration and management (incl. project management). The resources on this page let you focus on stakeholder needs, collection methods and requirement categories within that unit.

Pick a technique and compare how it appears across the listed maps.