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. |