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Gathering requirements is an essential stage creating software or web applications. I have searched the web extensively without finding any directions on how to elicit requirements for personal projects. All information i found - including books i read - is focussing on different stakeholders.

So i´m wondering, what would be the best way to 'gather' the requirements for personal projects?

I can't imagine i'm the only one with this question. I have plenty of ideas for webapplications. Since i am the only stakeholder at this time - no users are identified yet, i need to develop a couple of applications for personal use - i find it hard to interview my self to elicit those requirements.

As English is not my native language, apologies for possible textual errors.

Answer 1

You can have a document with all the information you have in your head of the project in a bullet list format called "Project Memoir". Just list all the information & business rules you need to put in the project. You can after that start developing a kind of informal Software requirements document (as it's for a personal project) containing some essential information for you in the development phase, like a feature list with their description, use cases & scenarios that will help you in testing in later phase, mock up screens for defining the UI look & elements, data elements lists for defining screen contents. Just keep it simple & easy as it's for only your personal use. Hope that would help :)

Answer 2

The questions are supposed to be a trigger of a thought process.

What makes it any different in case you are the developer next to the stakeholder? Your thoughts are those of a stakeholder and you will have to try to identify your own requirements by this process.

Identifying your own requirements with a structured approach will help you identifying requirements that you would otherwise have encountered during development.

If the sole purpose is not only personal, I doubt whether it is a good idea to start developing. Then you will need to find prospects to interview. Investigate the possible markets.