This workshop extends the foundations laid in the Mastering the Requirements Process course by showing you how to choose the best set of requirements to give you a competitive edge---and still get your product to market on time. The instructor covers techniques for quantifying the business value of investing in requirements as well as the need to anticipate market opportunities by creating and inventing visionary requirements. You’ll also learn to deal with requirements for existing systems along with techniques for managing meta projects (large projects made up of a number of smaller ones).
A good requirements engineer has the skill of helping a wide variety of people communicate with each other. The project sociology structure in this seminar helps you to discover the correct stakeholders for your project. You’ll also walk away with proven techniques to facilitate their involvement in the appropriate parts of the project and, even more importantly, how to help them stay involved throughout.
Extending Requirements: A Practical Workshop expands what you know about requirements and shows you how to take your projects to a higher level of requirements excellence.
Who Should Attend
Business analysts, systems mangers, project leaders, consultants, systems analysts, and planners. The material is designed for experienced requirements engineers who are already familiar with business events, product use cases, context models, functional requirements, non-functional requirements, constraints, and the Volere requirements template. View the Volere template at www.systemsguild.com/GuildSite/Robs/Template.html.
Recommended Prerequisite
Mastering the Requirements Process
Benefits
- Discover ways to select the lightest requirements process that will work for your project Effectively determine the cost and value of a requirement Gain techniques for building and maintaining good stakeholder relationships
- Earn 14 CDUs (Continuing Development Units) from the IIBA (IIBA®, the IIBA® logo, BABOK® and Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® are registered trademarks owned by International Institute of Business Analysis. These trademarks are used with the express permission of International Institute of Business Analysis.)
2-Day Course Outline
eXtreme Requirements
Agile processes
Critical Success Factors
Needed requirements attributes
Project Sociology
Who are the stakeholders?
Keeping them interested
Collaborative projects
Inventing Better Products
People may not know what they want, or what is possible
Inventing something better
How to inspire new ideas
Using Stories in Requirements
Telling stories to communicate
Using stories to discover requirements
Scenarios and other stories
Costs and Benefits
Quantifying requirements
Prioritizing and negotiating requirements
How to take advantage of requirements reuse
Meta Management and Multi-Technology
Large projects
Connections between inter-dependent projects
Multiple technologies in the same project
Requirements for Existing Systems
Changes to existing systems
Analyzing new requirements
Assessing the impact (from the point of view of cost, benefit, effort, delay)
People affected by changes
Skinny Framework
A minimal framework of deliverables and checkpoints
Identifying potential requirements black holes
Feedback loops
Class Daily Schedule
Training Course Fee Includes
