Patent ID: 8073799

Claim:
A method for generating design requirements for information technology development projects, comprising: creating a framework for decomposing and categorizing organizational information into data elements that comprise requirements; storing the data elements in a data repository; associating information provided by an end-user with the corresponding data elements to create a defined relationship; storing the defined relationship in the data repository; eliciting objective information from the end-user regarding objectives for new technology as a response to a guided facilitation process; eliciting specification information from the end-user based upon the objective information; eliciting requirement information from the end-user based upon the specification information until informational needs pertinent to various types and categories of requirements have been specified; mapping data elements in the data repository with the corresponding informational needs; generating standard requirements documents using the mapped data elements from the data repository; and periodically updating additional standard requirements documents using mapped data elements in the data repository.