Chapter 2 GatherinG requirements The requirement elicitation and elaboration process enhances DXP application requirement gathering and analysis. Requirement elicitation and elaboration is the process of gathering and analyzing requirements. In this process, the developer along with the system engineer interact with the systems, stakeholders, documents, and case study of existing applications along with proof of concepts done by teams. These requirement elicitation and elaboration methods are best suited for gathering digital platform requirements, but there are other methods also that can be used for requirement elicitation and elaboration. • Requirement workshops: Workshops are beneficial on the grounds that business analysts want to take stakeholders’ opinions and consensus. Workshops could be combined with brainstorms for discovering requirements, where ground rules are predetermined at the outset of the workshop. • Workshops help business analysts to build mock-ups or prototypes for refining and validating requirements. • Workshops could also include a walk-through for reviewing requirements. • Stakeholder interviews: Stakeholder interviews can lead toward success of the application, although stakeholders come in all shapes and sizes. The motive of the interview is to talk with those people who will spend most of the time using the things you plan to design, though it would help to first determine what that thing actually is. • Documentation study: It helps to understand the existing systems and challenges, so that they are incorporated in the new system. For example, understanding existing systems and their configurations helps us to integrate the existing system’s components with the 28