n is completed?
· Does the application need to interface with another application?
· What are your user security requirements?
· Will you have a system administrator and department administrators, or will users self-register?
· Is there a need for system-stamped time and date and last-updated-by details?
· Will you need reporting of the system usage or work results?
· Is every piece of data in the report tied back to the field source in the application? What are the computations?
· What are the business rules attached to each field on each page of the site?
· When you select “enter” do you go right to a new function, or to a list of pending items?
· Define field attributes: field-length, alpha or alphanumeric, required or not, any validation required?
These user requirements must then be translated into system requirements and ultimately into code as the developer creates your site or application.
Describing the work you do in exact detail and in the proper sequence is difficult or impossible. If your design team can shadow users of the new application as they do their work, they will get a much more accurate picture of what the new application must accomplish.
If you must supply requirements without developers available to watch your every move, do the next best thing. Take notes to define requirements as you work. Provide this detail to the development team, and be willing to answer as many questions as they can throw at you.
Success in this stage can mean a successful rollout, and though requirements-gathering will take some time, the end result is time saved with accurately defined needs, and a user-friendly application that meets your business needs and streamlines your job.
Donna Boyette is a new project manager and freelance writer.

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