Mastering the Requirements Process - Part 2

► Overview ◄

This course is endorsed by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA™). It provides material skills relevant to four Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK™) knowledge areas.

“Mastering the Requirements Process – Part 2” will take your requirements to the next level. It shows you how to build on your existing expertise and integrate requirements into project management for the maximum effect.

The course will give you:

• Direction in how to use the results of good requirements practices as input to project management
• The connections between your project success indicators and good requirements practices
• Methods for assessing the impact of new requirements in existing systems
• management techniques; approaches for keeping track of connections between tasks, people and technologies in large projects
• Extreme requirements; connected to light or agile processes to give you fast results with the minimum of waste
• Techniques for building and maintaining good stakeholder relationships, the sociological structure that your project needs to survive.
• How to implement effective cost analysis of a requirement
• Techniques for choosing appropriate levels and grouping of requirements

► Intended For ◄

This course is intended for experienced business/systems analysts, systems managers, project leaders, consultants, systems analysts and planners.

► Prerequisites ◄

This is an advanced level workshop. The material is aimed at participants who are experienced requirements engineers and are already familiar with business events, product use cases, context models, functional requirements and constraints. The workshop will not review foundation concepts. “Mastering the Requirements Process” (the 3 day course), provides training in all of these foundation concepts and is an ideal precursor to this course.

► Objectives ◄

In this course we show you ways of choosing the best set of requirements to give you a competitive edge and still get your product to market on time, including techniques for quantifying the business value of investing in requirements.

We also address the need to anticipate market opportunities by explaining how to invent the requirements your customers are not yet asking for. And we address the question of dealing 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 their requirements to one another. The project sociology section in this course helps you to discover the correct stakeholders for your project, to get them involved in the appropriate parts of the project and even more importantly to stay involved.

► Content ◄

• Extreme Requirements
• Project Sociology
• Inventing Better Products
• Using Stories in Requirements
• Costs and Benefits
• Management and Multi-Technology
• Requirements for Existing Systems
• A Skinny Framework

Business Analysis Body of Knowledge™

This course provides material and skills relevant to the following International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA™) BABOK™ knowledge areas:

• Requirements Planning and Management
• Requirements Elicitation
• Requirements Analysis and Documentation
• Requirements Communication

For more details on the IIBA™ and the BABOK™ see http://www.theiiba.org