DUX RAYMOND SY, PMP, MVP

How to Best Develop Requirements for SharePoint Projects

Managing Partner, Innovative-e (USA)

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Agenda

Activity

•  Individually, list 3 key challenges you have with requirements for SharePoint projects

•  As a group: •  Introduce each other •  Discuss your challenges •  Identify the top 3 challenges for the group

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Requirements Focus

Example: Defining Business Need

For example, how often someone in finance have to deal with collecting a bunch of Excel files regularly and

consolidate it to a single management report?

Example: Mapping Requirements

•  Business requirements –  SharePoint shall increase Finance department’s productivity by 15%

•  User requirements –  The user shall be able to retrieve & synchronize project expense

information in SharePoint from Excel without relying on email

•  System requirements –  Microsoft Excel shall be able to synchronize information with a

SharePoint site

How Do You Develop Requirements

•  Requirements development is iterative –  Business –  User –  System

•  Key Steps –  Requirements Elicitation –  Analyzing Requirements –  Validating Requirements –  Documenting Requirements

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Questions?

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