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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by raverbashing on Sunday January 31, 2021 @05:33AM (#25977767)
Ideally the requirements gathering wouldn't be a pile of tick boxes.

Get them to sit next to the users (especially UI/UX) and see how the process happen. Ask questions. See how data entry people work.

(Ideally. In the real world it will be a very thorny and boring process)

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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by JamesSwift on Sunday January 31, 2021 @11:19AM (#25979855)
Yes, and in the process of that discovery it turns out the "process" is 100 different processes for 100 different people. One person performs data entry by faxing a handwritten list of excel data. One person just tells the current DBA what to put into the DB. One person uses a homegrown webapp that some intern built to automate some of their process.

"This is asinine!" you say. "Just make sure you dont break our existing workflow" they reply.

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