Common mistakes in requirement gathering
It is said that humans makes mistakes, and requirement gathering is an activity performed by humans, so it is also prone to mistakes. Being a consultant, one should make sure that he/she tries to avoid common mistakes which happens during the requirement gathering for BI projects.
As we have learned since starting this chapter, requirement gathering is an important phase in the execution of a project, so any mistake made during requirement gathering may result in some risk to the project, which may cause the project to fail.
The following is a list of mistakes which are commonly made in the requirement gathering phase.
Lack of business understanding
Most of the times, the consultant starts requirement gathering without understanding the dynamics of that business. They may not be doing this intentionally, but they may skip this due to time factor or other pressure from the client or from the project manager, and at times due to overconfidence.
One common...
