1-10 How to Gather, Analyze, and Define Business System Requirements
a 3-day skills acquisition experience
Requirements are the foundation upon which systems are constructed. They are the key connection points between the business and system developers. However, business requirements and system specifications are not the same thing. The two major groups (business and systems) speak different languages and think in different ways. The starting point is the business requirements that are most often written or verbalized by business personnel and reflect how the business wants to operate. It is critical to capture and understand the business requirements before trying to create system specifications.
We provide a proven set of core techniques, methods and tricks to help create clear, unambiguous, complete requirements. Most requirements start with language and to create "good Requirements" you must know and use the "language and techniques" of Requirements Definition. The course also includes a set of techniques to help you evaluate requirements written by someone else.
NOTE: The techniques taught in this course are relevant to traditional, UML or Agile development environments
Topics
- Capture (Gather) Requirements
- Identify Stakeholders
- Manage questions and open items lists
- Evaluate a management vision statement
- Prepare, perform and follow up problem and requirements interviews
- Develop and process surveys
- Describe how "Analysis by Walking around" created Requirements
- Use 10 Critical Requirements Questions to guide the Requirements Capture process
- Develop requirements based on business events and responses
- Extract requirements from business data uses
- Identify the pros and cons of prototyping for requirements
- Write clear, easy-to-understand problem statements
- Relate problems and symptoms
- Create business requirements from problem statements
- Clarify (Understand) Requirements
- Write a "good" business system requirement
- Distinguish between business requirements and system specifications
- Identify and document business rules driven requirements
- Group requirements on like characteristics
- Decompose requirements into the 5 major types of requirements and their subtypes
- Further clarify Process, Information, Performance and Constraining requirements
- Identify exceptions as requirements
- Discuss the difficulties involved in Quality, "-ability" requirements (ex: reliability)
- Confirm (determine relative importance and feasibility) of requirements
- Create a requirement/problem matrix to confirm requirements completeness
- Prioritize requirements (four techniques)
- Identify high-risk requirements and list risk reduction alternatives
- Evaluate a requirement for testability
Who Should Attend?
- Business Analysts
- System Analysts
- Business Process Users
- Subject Matter Experts
- User liaison personnel
- Anyone involved in defining or deciphering business system requirements
Prerequisites: None
To meet specific training needs, this class can be combined with 1-20, 1-40, and 2-30
Duration: 3 day workshop
PDUs/Contact Hours: 24
Course Dates and Location: Contact us, 317.275.2870, if you are interested in this course or fill out our
online contact form. We will contact you when a session opens up. Thanks
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Cost |
Location |
Enrollment |
Registration Deadline |
| May 5-8, 2008 |
Each day 1:30-5pm plus 11am-12pm EDT intro first day |
$1000 |
Online |
Call 317.275.2870 to register |
5/2/08 |
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June 3-5, 2008 |
8:30-4:30 PM CDT |
$1595* $1,276 |
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5/29/08 |
| October 14-17, 2008 |
Each day 1:30-5pm plus 11am-12pm EDT intro first day |
$1000 |
Online |
Call 317.275.2870 to register |
10/09/08 |
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Workshop developed and presented by Requirements Solutions Group
