Training description
Developing User Requirements: The Key to Project Succes LT0315E 
Target audience
- Project and programme managers, directors, sponsors and others involved in planning and writing
- requirements for projects.
Course objective
- Successful projects begin by developing clear business and user requirements. This course provides the
- skills to write well-formed, testable and verifiable user requirements. You learn to enhance your requirements
- development processes and develop individual skills for getting the right information from your stakeholders.
- You Will Learn How To
- Write well-formed and validated user requirements
- Organise and sequence requirements into a user requirements document
- Prepare a plan for completing a user requirements project
- Conduct efficient user requirements elicitation meetings
- Analyse requirements using a process mapping methodology
- Manage changes to the user requirements
Requirements
- Those implementing requirements for software development should take Course 218, "User Requirements for Software Development".
Course content
- Foundations for Well-Formed
- Requirements
- Guiding principles The requirements process: elicit, analyse, specify, validate and manage The top five challenges to creating well-formed requirements Elements of a high-quality requirements document
- Key writing skills Principles of well-formed requirements Word sensitivity, syntax and active voice Well-formed vs. ill-formed requirements Editing and rewriting requirements
- Applying validation skills Selecting the best validation methods Writing test cases
- Organisational skills Organising requirements into a readable document Sequencing and numbering strategies Validation checklists Methods for conducting a walkthrough
- Planning a Requirements Project
- Interpreting existing documentation Requirements throughout the organisation Analysing business cases and project history Identifying stakeholders Determining project scope
- Creating a project action plan Identifying and managing requirements Elements of an action plan Writing a plan for a 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 Identifying other data sources
- Facilitating elicitation meetings One-on-one meetings Group meetings Dysfunctional meetings Meetings with senior executives
- Analysing Requirements with Process Maps
- Process-mapping methodologies Process-mapping procedure and materials Creating process maps
- Other analysis methodologies Creating outlines Applying alternative graphical models Performing gap analyses
- Completing the analysis Prioritising requirements with creative techniques Completing a requirements analysis worksheet
- Assembling the Requirements Document
- Gathering the pieces Extracting requirements from a requirements analysis worksheet Writing test cases for requirements
- Ensuring traceability Linking requirements to business needs and test cases Creating a traceability strategy for the organisation
- Building the elements Templates for documents Planning document distribution Conducting a walkthrough for completeness
- 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
Notes
- RealityPlus
- Through an immersive, multimedia-enhanced and simulated case study, you gain practical experience
- writing well-formed and verifiable user requirements. Activities include:
- Creating requirements documents based on authentic examples
- Preparing for stakeholder interviews with video scenarios that put you at the meeting table
- Analysing, writing, validating and testing requirements via production simulations
- Collaborating with others to foster new ideas and innovations
- Analysing different requirements approaches from various points of view to improve your own process
Duration
4 Days
