This chapter provided guidance on gathering business requirements. It shared lessons learned and provided direction on how to facilitate this critical stage of developing, justifying, and gaining funding for an Industrial Internet project.
You should now understand the importance of preparing for business discovery so that the sessions with business leaders are compelling. You should also understand how to gather CSFs from business stakeholders that will drive a need for our projects, the capturing of potential business benefits, and how to discover the KPIs that serve as metrics used in running the business.
You should recognize that we will need to match the skills of our business users and analysts to the solution we propose so that the solution will be useful and the project will be successful. We evaluated existing and proposed data sources so that we can deliver...
