Identify Project Requirements and Constraints

Evaluated skills

Analyze a project to prepare a client brief

Description

This quiz consists of seven paragraphs taken from Christie’s emails, followed by opportunities to practice analyzing the project by identifying requirements and constraints.

Some of the questions require you to identify questions that could be associated with the information you extract from the emails. In Part 2 Chapter 1, we discussed the composition of a client brief and identified several questions you should ask to begin collecting data for a client brief (these questions can become section headings in the brief).

If you would like to see the paragraphs in context, feel free to download these PDFs of Christie's first and second emails.

Question 1

Twelve months ago we added a required field to our add-to-cart popup which asks, “Are you purchasing this item for yourself or someone else?” We don’t ask any follow-up details. Interestingly, our findings show that 43 percent of online women shoppers are purchasing men’s briefs for themselves rather than someone else. Subsequent research has shown that these shoppers wear our the briefs primarily as lounge or sleepwear.

Choose the most correct response from the options below:
- This paragraph contains specific requirements that should be included in the client brief.
- This paragraph contains specific constraints that should be included in the client brief.
- This paragraph contains both requirements and constraints that should be included in the client brief.
- This paragraph contains neither requirements nor constraints that should be included in the client brief.
Question 2

It’s imperative that we be able to analyze the sales for this new product line as they happen, and somehow make comparisons between the sales of the new line and historical sales of men’s briefs to women buyers, while continuing to monitor the sales of our regular men’s briefs to women buying for themselves. Using this data and any other data that might be relevant, we need to be able to anticipate the sales volume for the new line from week to week. In like manner, we also need to anticipate what we expect will be a reduction in sales volume for our regular men’s briefs, assuming more women will be purchasing the new line. We don’t want to waste money with overstocked items, so we need to reliably predict sales so that manufacturing can make the necessary adjustments to both lines. We also need to know which colors and/or patterns in the women’s line are in greatest demand. An analysis of patterns and colors may help us identify future best-selling combinations.

Choose the most correct response from the options below:
- This paragraph contains specific requirements that should be included in the client brief.
- This paragraph contains specific constraints that should be included in the client brief.
- This paragraph contains both requirements and constraints that should be included in the client brief.
- This paragraph contains neither requirements nor constraints that should be included in the client brief.
Question 3
Select the question for which the paragraph above (in Question 2) contains relevant information:
- Where are we now?
- Where do we want to be?
- What are we doing to get there?
- Who do we need to talk to?
- How will we know we’ve succeeded?
- What are the practicalities?

Identify Project Requirements and Constraints

Evaluated skills

Description

Question 1

Question 2

Question 3