EGR 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Times Higher Education World University Rankings
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We can have a long list of objectives from our questioning of the client, but they aren"t particularly useful if they aren"t grouped and organized together. To do this, we can group together objectives by asking why exactly we care about each objective. When we do this, we can put it into an indented, hierarchical list: From this outline, it is a very simple jump to the objectives tree, which is a graphical representation of this indented hierarchical list of objectives: Each objective is broken down into subobjectives until either we cannot come up with more subobjectives or we start using verbs, implying functions. We don"t want to imply functions here, just objectives. It is important to note that moving towards the branches, we answer the question how do we do that? . However, moving from the branches towards the root node, we answer the question why do we want to do that? .
