Requirements Development, Documentation, and Management

Learn to use requirements to meet business and stakeholder needs.Your projects success depends on your ability to develop and document project requirements.

In this course, you will learn to follow a practical methodology of developing, documenting, and managing your project requirements. With a hands-on approach, you will work through the requirements process from start to finish. You will learn how to distinguish one type of requirement from another, and how your writing must change in each. You will also learn steps for sign-off, and how to manage the requirements baseline.

Hands-On Exercises:

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• Onsite

What You Will Cover

• Types of requirements including business, stakeholder, functional, nonfunctional, and transition requirements
• Elicitation techniques including their advantages and disadvantages for the various requirements stakeholders
• Analysis and modeling of requirements
• Types of requirement documents
• Best practices for requirements writing
• How to avoid requirements writing pitfalls
• Steps for requirements verification, validation, and sign-off
• Requirements management processes including data management, tracing, and change management

Extended Seminar Outline

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Course Outline

1. Requirements Issues and Impacts

· Issues from Poor Requirements Processes

· CBAP Review

· Requirements Definition

· Requirements Problems Class Exercise/Brainstorm

2. Foundations of Requirements

· Types of Requirements

· Business vs. Technical Communications

· Requirements Approaches

· Product and Project Life Cycles

· Role of Business Analyst (IIBA View)

· The Requirements Process

3. Defining the Product Scope

· Enterprise Analysis Overview

· What Scope Is

· The Business Case

· Use Cases to Describe Current Environment and Proposed Scope

4. Requirements Communication Planning

· The Requirements Communications Plan

· Requirements Conflicts

· The Requirements Package

5. Requirements Planning: The Requirements Charter

· The Requirements Charter

· The Requirements Team

6. Requirements Planning: Sources

· Stakeholder Types

· Identifying Stakeholders

· Analyzing Stakeholders for Requirements

7. Requirements Elicitation

· Techniques

· Creating an Elicitation Archive

· Elicitation Plan

8. Requirements Analysis

· Functional Requirements

· Non-Functional Requirements

· Constraints

· Modeling Techniques

- UML Techniques

- Data Modeling

9. Requirements Sign-Off

· The Requirements Baseline

· Review Meetings

· The Sign-Off Process

10. Writing the Requirements Document

· Technical Writing Practices

· Good Requirements Writing Practices

· Requirements Writing Pitfalls and Mistakes

· Requirements Document Enhancements

· Writing Functional and Non-Functional Requirements

· Writing Assumptions and Constraints

· Organizing the Requirements Document

11. Requirements Management

· Managing Throughout the Product Life Cycle

· Components of Requirements Management

· The Change Process

· Traceability

· Requirements/Configuration Management Systems

· Requirements Attributes – Brainstorm

12. Other Topics

· Requirements Process Close

· Project Life Cycles

· Agile Development Considerations

Who Should Attend

Systems analysts, business analysts, requirements analysts, developers, software engineers, IT project managers, project managers, project analysts, project leaders, senior project managers, team leaders, program managers, testers, and QA specialists.

Special Feature

Prerequisite

• Business Analysis Essentials (see seminar #72919)