Duration: 2 days, instructor-led

Content

• Determine your client's needs - exactly

• Write requirements that are complete, traceable, and testable

• Precisely define the scope of the project

• Discover the stakeholders and keep them involved

• Use up-to-date techniques such as storyboarding and e-collaboration

• Get the requirements quickly, and incrementally 

What you will learn:

• Key Principles & Concepts

• Business analysis.

• Requirements management.

• Document management strategies.

• Structure of business requirement documentation.

• Types of project users and their characteristics.

• The value of creating a requirements management plan.

• The elements in a generic requirements management plan.

• Project Lifecycle and Systems Development Lifecycle.

• Concepts, tools & techniques for analysts.

Types of Requirements and Requirements Discovery

• Attributes and types of effective requirements.

• Effective versus poor requirements.

• The types of requirements.

• Requirements in the development process.

• Advantages & disadvantages of discovery techniques.

• Using discovery techniques on a project architecture.

• Gathering and Structuring Requirements.

• Techniques used to gather & structure types of requirements.

• Interviews.

• Questionnaires.

• Workgroup / JAD sessions.

• Surveys and observations.

• Use cases for gathering/documenting requirements.

• Data/Process/Workflow modeling.

• Validating User Requirements.

• Reasons for validating requirements & methods used.

Documenting User Requirements

• Developing appropriate documentation.

• Using requirements for informative communication.

• Transforming requirements into specifications.

• Differences between requirements/specifications architecture.

• Techniques for transformation.

• Using requirements as foundation for development.

• Managing Requirements

• Understanding the requirements management life cycles.

• Identify, categorize and assess stakeholders.

• Create a communication plan.

• Understand risk factors.

• Common requirements issues that lead to project challenges.

• Traceability and global requirements mapping.

• Identify multiple views & global requirements.

• Understand how to review documentation standards.

• Select tools and techniques for specific types of projects.

• Evaluate a policy for project needs.

• Understand acceptance criteria and project test results.

Audience

Business consultants, Business analysts, Project Managers, IT professionals

Prerequisites

Basic Windows knowledge, OO technology knowledge may be useful