Name: Facilitating a Requirements Discovery Session
SKU: FRDS
Availability: InStock

Description

In this two (2) day workshop course you learn from the experts, through examples, hands-on exercises, and role-playing exactly how to manage and conduct an agile epic/story mapping workshop or requirements discovery session. You will have the opportunity to apply and practice the process, the tools, and the techniques learned in Eliciting Business Requirements and Lean-Agile Business Analysis and other BA courses. Participants will also learn and practice documentation and modeling techniques using standard templates, worksheets, and checklists.

This course is full of practical tips, checklists, principles and techniques to help capture, write and review requirements and related models. This session covers everything you need to conduct a requirements discovery session and capture appropriate documentation built on the principles and concepts of Best Requirements Practices™, Defining Business Requirements, The Agile Project Framework, and IEEE’s Recommended Practices and Documentation Templates.

Additional information

Domain	Business Analysis, Lean-Agile
Audience	Business Analysts
Credits Offered	14 PDU/CDUs
Delivery Method	In-class, Live Online
Duration	14 Hours (2-Days x 9am-5pm (ET))
Level	Intermediate
Public/Private	Public or Private
Vendor / Product Line	IAG

Course Outline

Discovery Session Overview

Types of Workshops/Sessions
Requirements Discovery Session Skills
What is an Effective Facilitator
Documentation Skills

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
Prepare Yourself
Practice

Starting the Session

Before the Meeting
Opening the Meeting

Facilitating the Meeting

Attributes of an Effective Facilitator
Conducting the Meeting
Requirements Elicitation and Modeling Practices
Steps and Questions to Success
Whiteboard Techniques
Keeping the Session on Track
Leading the Process
Dealing with Difficult Behaviors
Managing Group Dynamics

Recording, Modeling and Documenting

Real-time Documentation Tips
The 5 “C’s” of Quality Specifications
Packaging and Producing the Documentation
Closing the Meeting

Steps To Success

Seven Factors to Successful Facilitation
10 Tips for Discovery Session Documentation
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
How to capture use cases, process discussions, business rules and data requirements live during a requirements meeting
How to apply the seven factors to successful documenting — listening, capturing, writing, clarifying, organizing, suggesting & teamwork
How to write requirements specifications using proven and practical best practices—built on the framework and standards from IEEE, SEI’s Capability Maturity Model (CMMI), and the BA BOK
How to document using the five “C’s” to writing quality specifications — clear, concise, concrete, complete, consistent
Listen and document the requirements — capturing what was said, not what you heard

IAG Training Experience

Whether you are attending online or in person, in a public or a private in-house class, our courses are designed to provide an enjoyable, engaging and effective learning environment. Our instructors are all experienced practitioners and our courses all include demonstrations, examples, and exercises to make the content relevant and meaningful.

Participants receive a participant guide as well as access to our online class workspace for templates, handouts, samples and additional reference material.

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