Detailed Course Outline
Introduction
- A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®Guide) and PMBOK® Guide — Fifth Edition
- Requirements classification scheme
- The requirements development process: elicit, analyse, specify, validate and manage
- Challenges to developing effective requirements
- Requirements and Agile
Planning a Requirements Project
Interpreting existing documentation
- Requirements throughout the organisation
- Analysing business cases and project history
- Identifying stakeholders
- Determining scope
Creating a project action plan
- Identifying and managing requirements
- Elements of an action plan
- Writing a plan fora simulated project
Eliciting Requirements from Stakeholders
Planning elicitation meetings
- Choosing the right people to interview
- Selecting the best interview methodology
- Constructing questions that deliver results
Facilitating elicitation meetings
- One-on-one meetings
- Group meetings
- Dysfunctional meetings
- Meetings with executives
Analysing Requirements with Process Maps
Process-mapping methodologies
- Process-mapping procedure and materials
- Creating process maps
Other analysis methodologies
- Applying alternative graphical models
- Performing gap analyses
Completing the analysis
- Prioritising requirements with creative techniques
- Completing a requirements analysis worksheet
Writing and Assembling the Requirements Document
Gathering the pieces
- Extracting requirements from an analysis worksheet
- Utilising templates
Key writing skills
- Principles of well-formed requirements
- Word sensitivity, syntax and active voice
- Well-formed vs. ill-formed requirements
- Editing and rewriting requirements
- The top five challenges to creating well-formed requirements
Organisational skills and traceability
- Organising requirements into a readable document
- Sequencing and numbering strategies
- Linking requirements to business needs and test cases
- Creating a traceability strategy for the organisation
Validating Requirements
Applying validation skills
- Selecting the best validation methods
- Validation checklists
- Methods for conducting a walk-through
Writing testable requirements
- Reviews, walk-throughs, and inspections
- Checking the testability of requirements
Managing Changes to Update Your Document
What you can expect
- Types of changes
- Frequency, magnitude of changes
Navigating the change process
- Conducting a change meeting
- Managing change requests
- Accepting and rejecting changes
Integrating Requirements into Your Organisation
- Choosing the right requirements-management tools
- Selecting appropriate requirements standards
- Defining an ideal requirements process