Blacksburg, Va., Mar. 6, 2015
J5 has completed its contextual inquiry, contextual analysis, and requirements extraction!
With all the excitement surrounding the development of The Gaming Social Network, people were literally lined up to be interviewed for the Contextual Inquiry(1) phase of development.
Team member Daniel Rusz said “It’s important to consider what the users want out of our system so that they will enjoy using it when it is released”.
In addition to considering what the user wants, the contextual inquiry phase also helps J5 to prioritize features based on what the user deems important.
Team member Iyaz Shaikh said “An application like this can include a limitless number of features. It’s important to prioritize our efforts on the ones that the users deem important rather than ones they won’t use or care about”.
After the contextual inquiry, J5 began their analysis phase to produce a work activity affinity diagram. This diagram helps to visualize how all of the features of the application should be organized.
Team member Parham Ghazanfari said “Our WAAD helped us create our design requirements”.
Using the work activity affinity diagram, J5 was able to extract the design requirements for the system. The design requirements are used by the developers to prioritize certain features that coincide with design ideas.
Now that the design requirements are done, J5 is ready to begin the initial prototyping for their application.
1) The contextual inquiry is the phase in which the developers interview potential users about what they would like to see in the application.
J5 – “Let’s Play Together” Contact person: Lucas Eckert <lucase93@vt.edu>
