A New Approach in Requirements Elicitation Analysis

In requirements analysis the task of elicitation of stakeholder need has been a continuing source of error and frustration in systems development. To aid in the acquisition of a set of proper needs that are critical to the design of an effective system, the systems analyst is provided with a new tool to assist in determining when group consensus has been met with respect to the identification of one or more needs. A recently developed measurement tool for measuring subjective concepts like consensus, agreement, and dissent is described.