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Developing User Requirements Training: The Key to Project Success

Developing User Requirements Training: The Key to Project Success

Course 315

Duration: 4 days
Labs: Yes
Language: English
23 PMI PDUs
Level: Foundation

Learn to write user requirements in this Developing User Requirements training through an immersive, simulated case study. Learn to enhance your requirements development process — from planning the project through conducting elicitation meetings and writing well-formed user requirements — to validating and managing changes to them. Gain the skills you need to get the correct information from your stakeholders at the beginning and avoid wasting resources later.

In this user requirements training, you participate in an immersive, simulated case study, providing you with the practical skills necessary to write well-formed and validated user requirements. In addition, you learn how to organise and sequence requirements into a user requirements document, prepare a plan for completing a user requirements project, and analyse requirements with a process mapping methodology.

User Requirements Training Delivery Methods

In-Person
Online

User Requirements Course Information

In this User Requirements training, you will learn how to:

Write well-formed, validated requirements, and enhance your development processes.
Prepare for stakeholder interviews with video scenarios.
Analyse, write, and validate requirements via simulations.
Compare different requirements approaches.

Developing User Requirements Training Prerequisites

This is a foundational level training course available to anyone who already develops user requirements in their day-to-day job and wants to enhance their career or someone new to user requirements looking to enhance their knowledge and broaden their career options.

Developing User Requirements Continuing Education Information

This course is eligible for 15 AXELOS My PRINCE2 CPD points. Learn more now — PRINCE2® CPD Information ›

User Requirements Instructor-Led Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction

Requirements classification scheme
The requirements development process: elicit, analyse, specify, validate and manage
Challenges to developing effective requirements
Requirements and Agile

Module 2: Planning a Requirements Project

Interpreting existing documentation

Defining requirements throughout the organisation
Analysing business cases and project history
Identifying stakeholders
Determining scope

Creating a project action plan

Identifying and managing requirements
Identifying elements of an action plan
Writing a plan for a simulated project

Module 3: Eliciting Requirements from Stakeholders

Planning elicitation meetings

Choosing the right people to interview
Selecting the best interview methodology
Constructing questions that deliver results

Facilitating elicitation meetings

One-on-one meetings
Group meetings
Dysfunctional meetings
Meetings with executives

Module 4: Analysing Requirements with Process Maps

Process-mapping methodologies

Process-mapping procedure and materials
Creating process maps

Other analysis methodologies

Applying alternative graphical models
Performing gap analyses

Completing the analysis

Prioritising requirements with creative techniques
Completing a requirements analysis worksheet

Module 5: Writing and Assembling the Requirements Document

Gathering the pieces

Extracting requirements from an 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

Module 6: Validating Requirements

Applying validation skills

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

Writing testable requirements

Reviews, walk-throughs, and inspections
Checking the testability of requirements

Module 7: 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

Module 8: Integrating Requirements into Your Organisation

Choosing the right requirements-management tools
Selecting appropriate requirements standards
Defining an ideal requirements process

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4-day instructor-led training course
Learn user requirements best practices
One-on-one after-course instructor coaching

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Course FAQs

A user requirement is any function or feature that the user of the software being designed expects to be able to do.

In this course, you face the challenge of planning a requirements project from start to finish. In addition, you learn to sharpen your interviewing and analysis skills and write well-formed, testable, and verifiable requirements. Real-world, practical experience is what this course offers.

The result? You will be more efficient in your work and be able to describe what customers and users want effectively. In addition, your deliverables will be easy to read and manage, with just the right amount of detail so engineers, quality assurance professionals, and others can create and manage the solutions you have specified.

This course benefits those involved in developing products or services and those who participate in the initial stages when projects are initiated, and their business and user requirements are defined. Targeted class attendees include developers, users, intermediaries, managers, project managers, end users, and customer service representatives.

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