Knowledge acquisition:Concepts

Knowledge acquisition includes the elicitation, collection, analysis, modeling and validation of knowledge for knowledge engineering and knowledge management projects.

Issues in Knowledge Acquisition

Some of the most important issues in knowledge acquisition are as follows:
• Most knowledge is in the heads of experts
• Experts have vast amounts of knowledge
• Experts have a lot of tacit knowledge
o They don't know all that they know and use
o Tacit knowledge is hard (impossible) to describe
• Experts are very busy and valuable people
• Each expert doesn't know everything
• Knowledge has a "shelf life"
Requirements for KA Techniques
Because of these issues, techniques are required which:
• Take experts off the job for short time periods
• Allow non-experts to understand the knowledge
• Focus on the essential knowledge
• Can capture tacit knowledge
• Allow knowledge to be collated from different experts
• Allow knowledge to be validated and maintained

Software Requirements Specification:How to Write

SRS:How to Write

A Software Requirements Specification (SRS) is a complete description of the behavior of the system to be developed.It also acts as an agrement between customer and client.Great way to freeze the requirements.Its always better to get SRS approved from customer first and then start working.

It's important to note that an SRS contains functional and nonfunctional requirements only; it doesn't offer design suggestions, possible solutions to technology or business issues.

Keep In Mind : 1) The development team should try to be very precise while writing srs.
2)The team should keep in mind the requirements of client,timeline and budget of the project.In most cases project is taken by business team and given to development team so this should be kept in mind
3) It should not be too technical.Try to make it simple to understand even for a layman.

Advatages of SRS

* Reduce the development effort.
* Provide a basis for estimating costs and schedules(if project is not awarded yet).
* Provide a baseline for validation and verification.
* Serve as a basis for enhancement.


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