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Developing User Requirements Training: The Key to Project Success

Course 315

  • Duration: 4 days
  • Labs: Yes
  • Language: English
  • 23 PMI PDUs
  • Level: Foundation
Get This Course £2,095
  • 4-day instructor-led training course
  • Earn 23 IIBA CDUs
  • Earn 23 PMI PDUs
  • One-on-one after-course instructor coaching
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Learn to write user requirements in this training course by 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 the requirements and managing changes to them. Gain the skills you need to get the right 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. 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.

This is a beginners training course and available to anyone who already develops user requirements in their day to day job and wants to enhance their career, or a beginner looking to enhance their knowledge and broaden their career options.

Developing User Requirements Training: The Key to Project Success Delivery Methods

  • Learn user requirements best practises
  • After-course instructor coaching benefit

Developing User Requirements Training: The Key to Project Success Course Benefits

  • 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

User Requirements Instructor-Led Course Outline

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

Interpreting existing documentation

  • Requirements throughout the organisation
  • Analysing business cases and project history
  • Identifying stakeholders
  • Determining scope

Creating a project action plan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Course FAQs

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

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

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

This course benefits those involved in the development of products or services and those who participate in the early 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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