Database Reference
In-Depth Information
We met with the project sponsor and her team and asked the five strategic questions. Here
are the responses we received:
1. What is the application going to do?
This application is going to allow any organization in any industry to store the results of
any type of survey and provide the foundation for us to analyze the results (analysis will
be the focus of the next project phase). We think this would be a useful application to
many organizations whose surveys are still heavily paper intensive and therefore difficult
to store and eventually analyze.
2. “As is” or “to be”?
The application we are building is a brand-new system, and therefore we need a “to be”
solution.
3. Is analytics a requirement?
No, this is a data entry application and there is no need for analytics or reporting in this
application, which will take place in the next project phase.
4. Who is the audience?
The business analysts group needs to validate our results and the data modeling group will
take our model forward to the logical data modeling phase, so the data modeling group
represents our users.
5. Flexibility or simplicity?
Flexibility is more important than usability. Over time survey questions will be rephrased
or removed and new questions will be added. Any organization should be able to come up
with any type of survey with any type of survey question and our system should be able to
gracefully accommodate.
STEP 2: IDENTIFY AND DEFINE THE CONCEPTS
