Strategies for improving briefing framework: an evaluation study with industry practitioners

Year 2024, , 341 - 362, 30.10.2024

Ekrem Bahadır Çalışkan , Mehmet Koray Pekeriçli

https://doi.org/10.37246/grid.1278725

Abstract

Briefing is one of the important processes for capturing requirement knowledge from investor and user clients in the construction industry. In addition to briefing, designers use various techniques and technologies to capture, identify, validate, and track the client's wishes and apply them as requirements to develop projects with these processes. Developments in the information/knowledge technologies and research for briefing frameworks affect professional practice by giving the capability and possibility to manage the increasing amount of knowledge and to implement them into building projects through a life cycle. The expertise and approaches of designer architects are important for developing strategies and methods on briefing because of their acting role as industry practitioners. This study focuses on the evaluation of architects on a briefing framework proposal via interviews. The paper then explores the theoretical background and presents the interview structures and framework proposal. Comments, suggestions, and thoughts on the benefits of industry practitioners are presented and discussed to state important facts to develop a comprehensive briefing framework.

Keywords

Briefing, Architects in Practice, Knowledge Management, Requirement Elicitation, UML

Brifing çerçevesini iyileştirme stratejileri: sektör uygulayıcıları ile yapılan bir değerlendirme çalışması

Abstract

Brifing, yapı sektöründe yatırımcı ve kullanıcılardan gereksinim bilgilerini toplamak için kullanılan önemli süreçlerden biridir. Brifing sürecine ek olarak, tasarımcılar, müşteri isteklerini anlamak, tanımlamak, doğrulamak ve izlemek için çeşitli teknikler ve teknolojiler kullanır. Ortaya çıkan gereksinimleri projelerini geliştirmek için bu süreçlerde kullanırlar. Bilgi/teknoloji alanındaki gelişmeler ve brifing üzerine yapılan araştırmalar, artan bilgi miktarını yönetme ve bunları yapı projelerine yaşam döngüsü süresince kullanma imkânı sağlayarak mesleki çalışmaları etkiler. Tasarımcı mimarların uzmanlıkları ve yaklaşımları, sektör uygulayıcıları olarak aktif rollerinin olması nedeniyle brifing süreçleri için strateji ve yöntem geliştirmede önemlidirler. Bu çalışma, bir brifing çerçevesi önerisinin mimarlar tarafından mülakat aracılığı ile değerlendirilmesine odaklanmaktadır. Makale, konu hakkındaki teorik arka planını sunarak, mülakat yapısını ve çerçeve önerisini anlatmaktadır. Sektör uygulayıcılarının yorumları, önerileri ve görüşleri verilmiş, tartışılarak kapsamlı bir brifing çerçevesi geliştirmek için önemli unsurlar ortaya konulmuştur.

Keywords

UML, Brifing, Uygulamada Mimarlar, Bilgi Yönetimi, Gereksinim Belirleme

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