1-11 How To Capture and Tame Business Requirements
A 1-day Skills Acquisition Experience
It is very early in your project. How will you and your subject matter experts determine what the system should do when you are finished? There are many people involved, each with different expectations and needs. How can you deal with these difficulties, gather reasonable requirements quickly, and not waste the effort?
This course offers techniques for determining how to prepare and conduct effective information gathering meetings. Whether you are preparing for a 1-on-1 interview or creating an e-mail survey to get requirements, you will find a myriad of techniques and tricks for formulating questions, organizing the answers and checking the completness of the results. You will learn how to capture the information that focuses on the business needs or goals for the system. Business requirements statements ultimately define what the solution has to do. Getting to requirements is the primary goal of gathering information during early project phases.
Topics
- Identify Stakeholders
- Manage questions & open items lists
- Evaluate a management vision statement
- Prepare, perform and follow up problem and requirements interviews
- Develop and process surveys
- Describe how to use the six types of requirements gathering workshop sessions
- 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 usage
- 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
Who Should Attend?
- Business Analysts
- Systems Analysts
- Business Managers
- Project Leaders
- Subject Matter Experts
- End Users
- Developers
Course Dates & Locations:
| Date |
Times |
Cost |
Location |
Enrollment |
| October 22-23, 2007 |
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM EDT |
$500 |
Online |
To register call 317.275.2870 |