Many different roles are involved in delivering working IT soluitons. From the business community to the IT community, the players may wear many different hats throughout the project. It is important that each hat is a good fit to ensure project success.
Confucius (or another one of the early Chinese geniuses) is credited with saying that a picture is worth a thousand words.
Time-boxed requirements discovery sessions have been around since 1979 under a variety of acronyms. They are as germane to the challenge of enhancing communicaiton between IT and the business community today as when they were first conceived.
Decomposing business and stakeholder requirements identifies functions and data the people need to do their job and that information technology can support.
