by Chris Rupp (First IREB Chair and CEO of SOPHIST GmbH)

& Rainer Grau (Second IREB Chair and Education Manager at Zühlke)

Date:              20th July 2010

Place:             Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Time:              16:20 o’clock (4.20 p.m.)

Do you always write your requirement in prose and are you sometimes at a loss for the right words to detail important issues adequately? Or are you slowly drowning in the vast sea of UML diagrams your project is churning out?

During projects, the issue about the best way to elicit and document requirements often arises. When you analyze this matter from an effectiveness approach (the system-to-be is correctly detailed) and an efficiency point of view (time is money), the correct remedy is rather hard to determine. Sometimes a picture, for example a UML diagram, paints a thousand words. It helps make complexity explicable and understandable. But is it enough to paint pictures to unambiguously and comprehensively detail all the requirements of a system?

This lecture cuts a clear path through the nebulous subject of notations and explains which means of expression is best used when. The workshop will help you avoid shipwreck when traveling the convoluted path between romantic prose, PowerPoint snippets and super-formalized UML-models. The goal is to find the balance between different notations that produces the most synergy for your project.