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| Requirements-Gathering Skills for Clarifying User Input & Satisfying User Demands Effectively gathering user requirements is a critical first step of any project and perhaps one of the most challenging project management skills. To avoid cost overruns, dissatisfied users, or even project cancellation, it is vitally important to build the project on well-formed, testable, and verifiable user requirements. Users typically have difficulty explaining what they need, and the problems multiply when developers fail to translate requirements into working programmes. It is the role of the project manager or business analyst to ask the right questions and communicate effectively with all stakeholders. This takes training, practice and experience. Clarifying user input, building consensus, and communicating requirements accurately are all critical competencies for today's project managers. The following courses will help you develop the critical requirement-gathering abilities to ensure you collect the right information with greater confidence and success. 
If you haven't mastered the project management fundamentals, we recommend you take one of these two courses before taking courses to improve specific requirement-gathering skills: Project Management: Skills for Success Project Management for Software Development 
Developing User Requirements: The Key to Project Success
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Influence Skills: Getting Results without Direct Authority Modern Object-Oriented Software Design: Hands-On Introduction to Modelling for Business Analysis |
