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Developing User Requirements: The Key to Project Success

 
Course: 315   Duration: 4 Days   PMI: 23
 
 

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

Course Benefits

Successful projects begin by developing clear business and user requirements. This course provides the skills to write well-formed, testable, verifiable user requirements. You learn to enhance your requirements development processes and develop individual skills for getting the right information from your stakeholders.

Who Should Attend

Project and programme managers, directors, sponsors and others involved in planning and writing requirements for projects. Those writing requirements for software development should consider, in addition to this course, Course 218, "User Requirements for Software Development".

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

Related Courses

  • 212 Building an Effective Business Case
  • 912 Creating a Work Plan for Business Analysts
  • 447 Introduction to Modelling for Business Analysis
  • 316 Software Testing Foundation Introduction
  • 340 Project Management for Software Development
  • 312 Software Quality Assurance
  • 381 Business Process Re-engineering

 
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  Developing User Requirements

Upcoming Dates

Live online classroom training.Attend highlighted events in person or live, online via Learning Tree AnyWareTM.

UK Dates

10-13 AprEdinburgh
1-4 MayLondon
14-17 AugLondon
6-9 NovEdinburgh
13-16 NovLondon
5-8 FebEdinburgh

US East Coast Dates

14-17 FebWashington, DC*
20-23 MarWashington, DC*
15-18 MayWashington, DC*

*New York and Washington, DC Courses – Available online with a run time of 2pm to 9pm BST.

For AnyWare enrolments, please register at least 10 days prior to the start of the course.

Mainland Europe Dates

24-27 AprBrussels
24-27 JulBrussels
25-28 SepBrussels

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0800 282 353 or +44 1372 364610
Productivity through Education®
 
 

Developing User Requirements: The Key to Project Success

 
Course: 315   Duration: 4 Days   PMI: 23
 
 
Course Content
 

Introduction

  • Guiding standards: Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK®) and PMBOK® Guide Fourth Edition
  • Requirements classification scheme
  • The requirements development process: elicit, analyse, specify, validate and manage
  • Challenges to developing effective requirements

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

Writing and Assembling the Requirements Document

Gathering the pieces

  • Extracting requirements from a requirements analysis worksheet
  • Utilising templates

Key writing skills

  • Principles of well-formed requirements
  • Word sensitivity, syntax and active voice
  • Well-formed vs. ill-formed requirements
  • Editing and rewriting requirements
  • The top five challenges to creating well-formed requirements

Organisational skills and traceability

  • Organising requirements into a readable document
  • Sequencing and numbering strategies
  • Linking requirements to business needs and test cases
  • Creating a traceability strategy for the organisation

Validating Requirements

Applying validation skills

  • Selecting the best validation methods
  • Validation checklists
  • Methods for conducting a walk-through

Writing testable requirements

  • Checking the testability of requirements
  • Test cases for requirements

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
 
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Developing User Requirements: The Key to Project Success

 
Course: 315   Duration: 4 Days   PMI: 23
 
 
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