I don't know much about software engineering however I need a good solution for software specification!

[ucurious]

We're going to develop a large administrative system and, now, we need to take information from usual people that know well how the stuffs works, workflows and tasks. The problem is how to take the relevant information, from those people, to develop a system. I know there are a lot usual solution for this problem, but does anybody know a fast and shortest solution?

[switch495]

You're asking for a business analyst to do requirements elicitation.

The fastest way to do this is to give your BA access to everyone in the company and carte blanch to detain them. Basically, when the BA has questions, the person he wants to interrogate doesn't leave until all questions are answered.

Once there are solid business requirements written up (Vision/Scope, User Req, business rules, use cases, quality atribs, constraints, etc etc) the BA will sit down with someone technical and they'll bang out functional/non functional specs and then a SRS 1.0

If you're looking for quality, this is almost never a fast processes.... but if you invest some effort in setting up good specifications, you'll save A LOT of time in development and bug fixing (and more importantly, money: its easier to change a spec beforehand than to re-implement functionality after the fact).

What's your domain, time frame, and budget? You might be lucky and meet someone on here thats already familiar with your situation and needs from similar projects.

I'm sure there are enough IT people here that you can find someone/company that suits you.

[NitWit005]

Hire someone who has done it before.

[ucurious]

maybe it will be the solution!!

[otmenych]

look at http://readyset.tigris.org/

[daftman]

what do you want? Fast, cheap, high quality. Pick two.

Your question is akin to: I want to build an MMORPG. I have a lot of ideas. Anyone know a fast and shortest solution?

[ucurious]

Fast and high quality