Hermeneutical Theodolite of Requirements

The five levels of understanding of the requirements engineer in relation to the application domain

Level

Knowledge Related to the Application Domain

1-Pre-conceptual

Identifies what is happening (the problem and/or the opportunity) and to whom it is happening (business community), but still does not know details about the events that occur between them.

2-Conceptual

Identifies what is happening (the problem and/or the opportunity) and to whom it is happening (business community) and also already knows the details about the events that occur between them.

3-Contextual

Knows and contextualizes why facts occur, along with their circumstances, situational differences, problems and/or opportunities.

4-Systemic

Knows how each involved of the business community perceives, is impacted and deals with each circumstance, situational difference and problem and/or opportunity.

5-Holistic

Identifies a set of possibilities (and their respective benefits) that can be adopted by stakeholders of the business community to address (or mitigate) problems and opportunities, as well as their business processes, scenario, environment and utensils (or inputs) that contextualize them.