This industry-endorsed 1-day workshop for suppliers and receivers of requirements provides an overview of the entire requirements management process. It provides training and exercises in the industry best-practice techniques with an emphasis on involving users and effective validation of requirements. The material is consistent with and ties directly into the 3-day workshop for producers of requirements. The goal is for each student to gain a high-level understanding of the process with emphasis on the benefits of the requirements management process and their role in supporting the process.
Practical Techniques Presented
- Stakeholder Profiling to identify all the right people to involve.
- User Profiling to identify the right subject matter experts.
- Requirements Facilitation to reduce requirements-gathering time.
- Documenting Assumptions to increase consistent interpretation and identify missing or inaccurate requirements.
- Analyzing Requirements to identity conflicts, constraints, dependencies, and risks.
- Trade-off Analysis to prioritize the requirements.
- Representing Requirements using a standard, consistent format to increase communication effectiveness.
- Context Diagramming to identify the users of the business process and clarify scope.
- Formal Reviews to ensure stakeholder involvement and commitment.
- Traceability Matrix to optimize change impact analysis, and reduce testing debugging efforts.
- Eliminating Ambiguities helps to reduce requirements errors and also increases communication effectiveness.
- Quality Characteristics to increase completeness, correctness, feasibility, and overall quality of the requirement statements.
- Requirements Baselining to ensure effective change control.
Objectives
- Understand the activities of the five-stage Requirements Management Process including roles that contribute to quality requirements.
- Learn how to recognize and classify different requirement types (business, user, functional, and nonfunctional).
- Learn how to identify and involve the right people.
- Be able to evaluate written requirements to improve clarity and ensure consistency of interpretation.
- Apply several learned techniques through hands-on exercises to give participants the confidence to use the techniques following their education experience.
Intended Audiences
Business Owners, Project Sponsors, Staff Management, Subject Matter Experts, Testers, and Users will gain understanding into how requirements are managed and their role in the process.
The Quest for Excellent Requirements – Overview
This industry-endorsed 1-day workshop for suppliers and receivers of requirements provides an overview of the entire requirements management process. It provides training and exercises in the industry best-practice techniques with an emphasis on involving users and effective validation of requirements. The material is consistent with and ties directly into the 3-day workshop for producers of requirements. The goal is for each student to gain a high-level understanding of the process with emphasis on the benefits of the requirements management process and their role in supporting the process.
Practical Techniques Presented
Objectives
Intended Audiences
Business Owners, Project Sponsors, Staff Management, Subject Matter Experts, Testers, and Users will gain understanding into how requirements are managed and their role in the process.