No-one knows your business better than you, but articulating the details of how your business works now and how you want it to work in future is not a trivial task. What kind of problem are you trying to solve? Is there only one problem, or a combination of related problems? Who are your users, what information are you working with, how does this information change over time — and how do you know when to stop asking questions? No matter what technology or methodology is used to develop a solution, at some point these questions must be answered, and then clearly framed and presented to ensure that the answers are understood by everyone involved in its delivery.
RocketBoots uses an elegant and powerful approach called requirements patterns to help recognise new permutations of familiar software problems, determine the list of questions we need to answer and how to then arrange these answers for maximum clarity. We find that this process helps our clients to understand their own business better, to the extent that on several occasions our clients have requested that the scope of the analysis be extended beyond the scope of the solution.
