Gather Requirements
By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to:
- Write a set of user stories for a realistic, multi-department application
- Apply Module 41's Agile requirement-gathering discipline one final time, at full scale
- Identify which requirements imply architectural decisions, not just features
Prerequisites: Module 44: "Advanced Platform Concepts for Architects"
The scenario
A company sells, delivers, and supports client projects. Today, this happens across disconnected spreadsheets. The Project Delivery Tracker needs to: let Sales convert a won Opportunity into a Project, let Delivery track Milestones and log time, let Support log Cases against a live Project, and give leadership a real-time view of project health — a genuinely cross-departmental system, not a single-team tool.
User stories, in Module 41's format
As a Sales rep, I want a won Opportunity to automatically create a
Project, so that Delivery has zero manual setup work.
As a Delivery lead, I want to track Milestones with due dates and
status, so that I can see which projects are at risk of slipping.
As a Support agent, I want to log a Case against a specific Project,
so that Delivery has full visibility into support burden per client.
As a leader, I want a real-time dashboard of project health across
every department, so that I can intervene before a project fails.
Each story reuses Module 41's exact "As a... I want... So that..." format — this capstone doesn't introduce a new requirements process, it applies the one already established, one final time, at genuinely larger scope.
Requirements that are secretly architecture decisions
"A real-time dashboard across every department" already implies the data model needs Project as a shared, central object that Sales, Delivery, and Support all relate to — not three separate, disconnected systems. Recognizing this now, during requirements gathering, is exactly Module 41\'s "catch problems on paper, cheaply" principle — the alternative is discovering this need for a shared central object midway through building three separate department-specific systems.
Exercise
As a comment, write one additional user story for a Delivery lead who wants to be notified when a Milestone becomes overdue.
Show hint
Follow the exact "As a... I want... So that..." format from this lesson.
Gather Requirements Quiz
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Summary
This capstone builds a Project Delivery Tracker: an internal application letting multiple departments (Sales, Delivery, Support) track client projects from sale through delivery to ongoing support — deliberately spanning several business domains at once, the way a real enterprise application does.