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Overview:

In this three (3) day workshop course you learn from the experts, through examples, hands-on exercises and role-playing exactly how to manage and conduct Requirements Meetings from small group meetings to formal Requirements Discovery Sessions.

Name Requirements Facilitation Best Practices (RFBP)
Duration Three (3) days
Type Instructor-led
Target Business Analysts, Business Systems Analysts, Project Leads
Rating 5 stars
Purpose To learn practical techniques for facilitating a requirements gathering meeting
Pre-req Basic Business Analysis knowledge

 

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Course Content:

  • Facilitation Overview
    Facilitation Skill Development
    What is an Effective Facilitator
    Different Types of Sessions

  • Preparing to Facilitate a Session
    Meet with your Client
    Meet with your Project Team
    Schedule the Session
    Arrange the Room
    Be Grounded in the Process
    Practice

  • Facilitating a Session
    Before the Meeting
    Opening the Meeting
    Conducting the Meeting
    After the Meeting
    Practice Facilitating a Scoping meeting
    Practice Facilitating a Review meeting

  • Requirements Planning Sessions
    Scoping Meetings
    How to Discover & Describe Business and Project Objectives
    How to Discover & Describe Project Scope
    Using Context Diagramming
    Using High-Level Scenarios
    Creating Your Requirements Work List
    Practice

  • Eliciting the Business Requirements
    Requirements Discovery Sessions
    How to Discover & Describe Business Activities
    How to Discover & Describe Information Requirements
    How to Discover & Describe Functional Requirements
    Using Use-Case and other Process Modeling techniques
    Discovering the Information Requirements
    Practice

  • Steps to Success
    Seven Factors to Successful Facilitation
    The ‘Top 10’ to Ensure Success

Learning Objectives:

  • Facilitate a meeting to discover and describe use cases, process discussions, business rules and data requirements
  • Identify clients’ business needs easily, without needing to be a subject matter expert
  • Conduct fast and efficient analysis – maximizing the limited time and resources of the company
  • Identify true user requirements versus nice-to-have solutions
  • Deal with managers and users in their terms

 

Business Analysis Competencies Coverage Objective
Analytical & Systems Thinking

S/I

A
Change Leadership

M/D

A
Requirements Planning

M/D

SD
Requirements Elicitation & Analysis

I/D

SD
Requirements Management

S/I

A
Client Relationship Management

M/D

U
Consensus & Agreement Building

M/D

U
Professional Knowledge

M/I

A
Modeling

I/D

SD
Communication

I/D

SD
Self-Management

S/I

A
Teamwork

I/I

SD
Leadership

S/I

A

 

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Coverage

Objective
I/D In-depth, Direct SD Skill Development
I/I In-depth, Indirect U Understanding
M/D Moderate. Direct A Awareness
M/I Moderate, Indirect
S/D Some. Direct
S/I Some, Indirect
N/A Not Addressed