Instructions
Follow the script instructions and record the information in the designated table cells. You may wish to make notes below the questions.
Initial Analysis:
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Information/Response |
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Date: |
01/08/2010 |
Requirement # unique id <SemConOps Initiative>.<analysts initials><requirement number> |
Init1bes13 |
Originator/Customer's Name: |
Dianne Reeves and Denise Warzel |
Originator/Customer's Company: |
NCI |
Summary of requirement initial analysis, by Reviewer: (as unambiguously as possible, describe who (List of Actors) is interacting with the system, what the business goal is and how the system might support the actor's ability to acheive their goal) |
Business Goal: Streamline bulk load of content to MDR; identify missing content (annotation, components, objects, data types, value domains) , create the new "unique" content. |
Recommended Next Step Enter one: Follow-up interview, Observe, Use Case Template (text), Use Case Model (formalized/UML diagram), Group Discussion, Prototype, Waiting Room |
Follow-up interview to Dianne Reeves |
Interview
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Script / Question |
Information/Response |
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1 |
Hello, my name is NAME. I am calling you today because NCI and caBIG are working toward a new and improved version of the semantic infrastructure to better support integration scenarios. |
Yes. |
2 |
What do you do? What are your goals for the next year? Why are you doing this? |
Being able provide the content loading capability set by this requirement. |
3 |
In interacting with the caBIG infrastructure, do you have any solution integration needs? If so, what are they? Have you envisioned new ways of interacting with existing or new parts of the semantic infrastructure? |
The challenging part of this requirement is to be able to identify matched content. This step is time consuming and/or laborous. My expectations is to do this in a almost fully-automated fashion to be able to address a simple question such as what percentage of the content provided has a match in Knowledge Repository (e.g. a new/reusable proportion). |
4 |
Are there any business changes you are assuming we will be able to deal with? |
One business change; a staging environment that allows use of full capacity of the required tool but do not publish the results/content until the task of matching/creation is completed. While doing this, the identifier created for content should remaing the same even if the content is published later on. |
5 |
Are there any capabilities you are expecting to be available to support your needs? |
A content loading tool that will interact with Knowledge Repository that does smart/targetted searches so that it can easily identify missing content and/or create a new one. |
6 |
Do you use any of the existing software/services? If so, what do you like or dislike about it? |
Yes. You use existing tools. |
7 |
If this requirement is met, what would be the benefits? If you do not have it, what would be the negative impact? |
You won't be able to scale up to content load need from community unless you use extensive human resources. Increasing the number of people for this task will result in more variability due to human factors. |
8 |
If, for any reason, we were not able to create that solution, do you think there might be another way to solve this issue? Can you think of an alternative solution? |
The current approach is the alternative approach. A curator driven review and matching of content. Again is very time consuming and resource intensive. |
9 |
Would you agree that we can summarize your requirement like this? |
A Metadata Specialist (more specifically Metadata Curator), working at NHLBI and other divisions, wants the ability to bulk/batch load new content from a variety of sources for later curation. Actually we would like expand the use of this tool beyond metadata specialist (e.g. regular users) so that at least initial matching capabilities of loading tool can be done by content owners. |
10 |
How important is this requirement to the interviewee? Required: Customer Priority/Annotationrement Analyst |
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11 |
On a scale from 1 to 3 with 1 being "not satisfied" to 3 "completely satisfied", how would you rate your overall satisfaction with the product if this requirement was met? (Relative rating/ranking of how satisfied or dissatisfied interviewee would be if this requirement were met/not met) |
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12 |
Are there other requirements that you would like to share with us? I'd be more than happy to call you back another time, or if you have another 10 minutes, please share other issues you can think of. |
No for now. |
13 |
Who else should we talk to in order to elicit more information about this need? |
Robinette Aley (raley@NMDP.ORG) from National Marrow Donor Program is a potential beneficiary of the loading tool described here. |
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For specific service enhancement or requirement from Forum entry: |
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14 |
Can you or someone else give me a step-by-step description of how you would describe the expected performance/behavior of the software in order for you to feel that your requirement is met? |
For the step "Setting up a search criteria to restrict the content matching.": The tool is expected to match to the content "only" available in the context/project or metadata restricted by the search criteria. |
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Forum Link: |
https://cabig-kc.nci.nih.gov/Vocab/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=112 |
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URLs (optional): |
Links to pages or applications related to this requirement |
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References (optional): |
Links to articles, papers or presentations related to this requirement |
Post Interview - ongoing throughout development of use cases:
Item |
Description |
Information/Response |
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Stakeholder Community: |
Enter appropriate category of stakeholder from Primary Stakeholders:
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Requirement Type (required) |
Analyst's assessement of the most appropriate category/type of requirement (no need to ask interviewee):
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Functional |
ConOp Initiative(s) |
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Initiative 1 |
High Level Use Case Summary) |
Please write a short descriptive narrative use case; the steps or activities in this use case are usually the things the user wants to accomplish with the system (user/actor's goals). |
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Use Case Linkage (required) |
Which use case(s) is this requirement linked to? (should follow Use Case numbering scheme <SemCon Ops Initiative>.<analysts initials><requirement number>.<use case number>, for example Init1dbw1.1, Init1dbw1.2, Init2dbw2.1, 2.2, etc. |
Use case Number(s): |
Conflicts / Dependencies(required) |
Are there any conflicts with other requirements / use cases? |
Yes OR No - If yes, what and why? |
Next Step (required) |
After reviewing the results of the interview, the forum, and all other materials related to this requirement, the analyst should recommend the next step, then attach the Tiny Link (on the Info tab) for this page to the Master List table. |
Use Case Template (text) |