From the course: Requirements Elicitation and Analysis

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Experiments

Experiments

- Sometimes people don't know what they don't know. They have blind spots due to complexity, ambiguity, or just plain uncertainty about the future. This is increasingly common in today's business and technology landscape. If your team is struggling with blind spots, try experimenting. It's the best technique to pull out when your team needs clarity and needs to learn something to move forward. Experimenting is about learning the unknown, testing ideas, assumptions, and key theories that drive requirements for products and systems. We identify what we want to learn more about and design an experiment to bring the team the needed information. Experimenting helps teams get through the times when requirements are hard to get at or on the other side of the equation, requirements keep changing. When you see one of these patterns happening, it may be time to recommend and plan an experiment. To plan an experiment, first, we…

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