CPT6 Requirements & Objectictives. What's the difference?

Hey everyone.
I've done most of my project now and i was reading through my analysis this morning wheni realised that my user requirements and project objectives are almost identical.

What exactly is the difference? :confused:

Thank you

Reply 1

iainmacn

well since you're doing the project to meet the needs of the end user - it would be rather surprising if they were vastly different!

IMO the project objective will go into more specific detail than the user requirements

e.g. user requirement - to reduce errors to under 1%

whereas that might translate into project objectives to do calculations automatically and have decent validation rules

there should be what almost seems like repitation throughout the project - you have what the system needs to do, then you plan HOW you'll achieve it in design, test that it does it in testing, show how you did it in system maintenance, and evaluate it in evaluation. If you don't then you may well lose marks

Reply 2

kjr

right, thanks. :smile:

so if, for example, in user requirements i say that the user needs a way to communicate with other users, in objectives i say that the system must contain private messaging service. right?

P.S.

Also, the part 'Analysis data dictionary'. How can i possibly knnow what kind of data i will need to deal with if i haven't started design yet?
It seems my whole analysis is simply wrong :s-smilie: