An IT Architect for an international consulting firm is tasked with gathering technical requirements for the company's new email platform. What is the most effective way to understand the business…

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Options

• AAn in-person workshop with key power users from within the IT organization.
• BAn online video outlining the goals of the project followed by a 30-question online survey sent
• CA Request for Input (RFI) to the product's engineering team.
• DA write up of the product's features and capabilities published to the company intranet.

• A
  4% (1)
• B
  82% (23)
• C
  11% (3)
• D
  4% (1)

Explanation

Option B is correct because gathering requirements from the user community (the actual end users of the email platform) requires broad, scalable outreach - a video provides shared context so all respondents have the same baseline understanding, while a structured survey captures quantifiable input from a large, geographically distributed group efficiently.

• A is wrong because it limits input to IT power users, not the broader user community, and internal IT staff may have different priorities than business end users.
• C is wrong because an RFI goes to vendors/engineering teams to understand what they can offer - it's a procurement tool, not a requirements-gathering tool from users.
• D is wrong because publishing a write-up is one-way communication; it informs users but collects no feedback or input about their actual needs.

Memory tip: Think "gather FROM users, not FOR users." When the goal is capturing business capability needs from the user community, you need a method that reaches many users and collects their responses - video + survey does both, while the other options either narrow the audience (A), go to the wrong audience (C), or push information instead of pulling it (D).

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