Importance of Elicitation Techniques

In business Analyst there are various various elicitation techniques for understand business goals, identify stakeholders. Elicitation techniques help business analyst to understand the business need and scope, identify the stakeholder in the organization. Elicitation techniques also help in gathering accurate and complete data for the project’s goals The Elicitation techniques are used for following purposes 1.TO understand the business need: Business Analysis uses elicitation techniques to understand the basic business needs and gathering reequipments to solve the problems and boundaries of the organizations. 2.identify the various stakeholders: Business Analysis uses elicitation techniques to determine the interest of the stakeholder 3.Analyzation and documentation Elicitation process helps business analysis to determine the mapping the process and flowcharts . it also helps in preparing user stresses case and data modelling etc. 4.Validation and refine It also validated the analysis of reequipments and understanding the organization by validating and refine the data. There are various elicitation techniques following by BA’s • Brainstorming: A group of Techniques use to gather information from stakeholder.it encourage open and creative thinking to explore potential solution • Interviews This one-on-one or small-group discussions with stakeholders to gather detailed data information, understanding perspectives, to find the solution for the reequipment problems • Workshops A workshop is a highly structured elicitation technique where a group of key stakeholders collaborates over a concentrated period to identify, conflict and solve the problem that has occurred • Observations Observation, also known as job shadowing, here used to actively observing stakeholder work environment in the organization and process the activities to gain a deeper understanding of the business reequipments , challenges and work process • Prototyping Creating a visual representations and interactive model for proposal solution gather feedback from stakeholder and ,validation reequipments • Survey: The list of question is prepared and shred among the stakeholder and gather the information for reequipments. • Questionnaire A questionnaire is a systematic way to gather the stakeholders together for quantitative data opinions on specific topics reequipments • Document analyzing Document analysis involves reviewing existing documentation to understand, and validate requirements of the business. It provides critical background information of the business needs and • Focus group: It is a qualitative elicitation technique used by business analysts to gather information, ideas, and feedback from a pre-qualified of stakeholders to gather the needs of organization in a guided, interactive discussion. • Reverse engineering: This technique is used for reviewing of existing system data already in the process.it is mostly used Elicitation Techniques when poor documentation is done The outcomes of elicitation technique are: - Consensus and Alignment: Theis techniques help stakeholder with competing interests reach a common goal Reduce Risk: This elicitation Techniques also reduces the business risk like expenses , time and human recourses other external factors Improve stakeholder satisfactions Elicitation’s Techniques help to satisfy the stakeholder reequipments and also increase confidents among the group of stakeholders which will make them to accept the final product with interest. Cost and Time Efficiency: Here teaches work effectively in elicitation Techniques which will help to reduce budget and time efficiently . This will help in delaying of project and communication to the stakeholders.