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Comment by Karoly Domonyi on March 1, 2009 at 1:28am

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Comment by Paul Scheer on February 16, 2009 at 7:02pm

A friend currently engaged in job search for a technical position was hit during a recent interview with question for which she was unprepared: "How do you gather the needs of the users?" Since that's what I do, she asked me what answer I would give. After scratching my head for a couple of days, I wrote the following:



There is no simple answer to how one collects requirements. The most general answer is, it's like having a conversation with another person where that other person may want or need your help with something, but often times doesn't know exactly what (or they may know, or they may THINK they know but be mistaken).

The most general skills I have learned to use are how to listen actively to another person, understand when what they're saying may entail system development, and then finding ways to tell them or document for them what I understood their requirements to be. It's a long, convoluted process with no simple path from start to finish. Many different techniques may prove to be useful and a technique that works well in one case may be absolutely useless in another.

What differentiates the cases includes the user's personality (some prefer words, some prefer diagrams, some prefer that you would just leave them alone and come back with what they want after reading their mind -- since they won't tell you what's on their mind!); also, the nature of the project (example: invoice or other document approval usually demands work flow diagram before anything else; data warehouse demands ERD reflecting existing data relationships; etc.); also the budget (something with a large budget gets a lot more requirements documentation up front than something with very little budget); also the schedule (if something needs to be delivered in a month, the type and amount of documentation will be very different than something that won't be delivered for at least a year).

I don't think I've really answered your question, but maybe what I wrote above will give some idea why it's a very HARD question (and therefore, why some hiring managers like to ask it in an interview, to see if they can stump you).



How would YOU have answered my friend's question?

Comment by Robert R. LaPorta on December 10, 2008 at 7:00pm

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Comment by Nancy Babyak on November 3, 2008 at 5:46pm

Good afternoon everyone,

Are you a new project manager looking for help driving your first project to a successful launch? Are you a project mentor looking for project mentees?

I have taken a page from the FlyLady group and broken down the stages and tasks of running any project into daily nuggets in a repeating monthly cycle.

How in the world can we discuss all phases of managing your first project in just a month?

The month is sliced in 2 directions:

Noon Nuggets - with a new project phase each week,

Nightly Nuggets - with a project management 'tool' explored each day.

How would you like to be helped?

Project1Mentors Blog at http://project1mentors.wordpress.com/ which has expanded thoughts on nuggets, lists of resources and an overview of the daily themes.

Yahoo Group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Project1Mentors for both discussion and to receive short Nuggets by e-mail.

Twitter Tweets by following http://twitter.com/project_1 which will provide updates on blog posts, new resources, and hot topics being discussed in the Yahoo! Group... all in 160 characters or less.

I look forward to interacting with everyone in these new and exciting formats and welcome your suggestions and needs!

Nancy

Nancy Babyak, PMP
www.nancybabyak.com

Comment by Lee Woods on August 14, 2008 at 10:30am

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Comment by Matthew Briston Collier on August 12, 2008 at 10:39am

Hello all I hope this post finds everyone healthy and happy. Let me start off by saying I would be eternally grateful for some help. I recently relocated to the Southern Indiana/Louisville Kentucky area and am seeking gainful employment. I have a Bachelors of Information Technology and 8 years experience in the worlds of Operations Support, Desktop Support, Systems Administration, and Project Management. Any leads or assistance in my job search would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time and best wishes to you.

Comment by Lee Woods on August 9, 2008 at 9:50pm

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Siebel Applications Administrator - Job W 1702

Location:
Southern Wisconsin

Key:

Siebel Applications Administrator with excellent infrastructure design and analytical skills for a full-time, direct hire position with one of our top regional clients.


Requirements for area of Specialty:

• A proven application administrator with a minimum of 2 years experience in Siebel implementations

• Extensive experience in Siebel administration (version 7.x or higher) including: application installation, patching, monitoring, tuning, security, license administration, roles & responsibility management, multilingual, service level agreements and release management

• Proven ability to troubleshoot issues and deliver a quality application through partnerships with Siebel support, off-shore clients and internal partners such as DBAs, Infrastructure Architects and Data Center personnel

• Strong technical foundation including; excellent knowledge of infrastructure design, LAN/WAN management, relational database concepts, Siebel Data Model and SQL

• Driven team player with excellent communication skills (written, verbal, listening) as well as a keen attention to detail


If you are interested or know of someone interested, please contact:

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solutions@accuratetalent.com
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Comment by Lee Woods on August 8, 2008 at 5:38pm

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Location:
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Skills:
Java, JavaScript, Web 2.0, .NET, HTML/JavaScript, REST, AJAX, Subversion, Eclipse, Geo-spatial development, BI tools

Openings:
Multiple, with candidates having either heavier emphasis on .NET or Java

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• Create lightweight, thin client geospatial mashup applications
• Extend existing Web 2.0 geo-spatial and visualization applications
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• Solve complex problems, develop enhancements and improvements
• Testing and debugging products

Expected Technical Skills:
• 5 – 10 years Web development experience
• 1+ years Web 2.0
• HTML /JavaScript a plus
• 5+ years .NET and/or Java programming

Desired Skills and Abilities:
• Oracle Business Intelligence a plus
• REST experience a plus
• Software architecture design skills
• Geo-spatial and visualization experience a plus
• Computer Science or related degree
• Advanced degree a plus

If you are interested or know of someone interested, please contact:

Lee Woods
630-978-2665
solutions@accuratetalent.com
www.accuratetalent.com
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Comment by Delete Me on July 20, 2008 at 1:27pm

Hi everyone,

Need to introduce myself to the group. I am George Moraetes, CISM and a little about myself short bio:

One of the leading Information Security practitioners, certified, highly accomplished Information Security Executive and Visionary with a proven track record of successfully completing complex technical projects, disciplined budget holder, effective communicator with experience in managing multi discipline and multinational teams.

I have engaged in a wide variety of complex Information Security projects throughout the United States and Canada assisting organizations meet their security objectives in difficult situations and tight deadlines. My work focused on the large global corporations and the federal government addressing their concerns designing and implementing technical architecture solutions. In my 16 years of experience I have seen some of the best to some of the worst secured corporate environments and helped them attain and/or maintain industry's best practices, compliance mandates, risk management as well as establishing IT governance.

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Comment by Shaun Callahan on July 3, 2008 at 8:53am

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