Defining Business Requirements

Overview

This three day applied course provides the steps and practices to effectively gather business and system requirements. Participants learn a variety of practical communication, analysis and modeling techniques — the best practices used in the Requirements Elicitation Process. And even more importantly, participants are taught – and given the opportunity to practice how to apply them on systems development projects.

The course teaches a very practical systematic approach to requirements analysis and definition. This is a proven, effective, real world approach that will enable a defined and consistent method that is easily learned and easily applied. Participants will learn specific modern methods, strategies and techniques that can be easily integrated into a company’s existing methodologies and practices.

Type

Instructor-Led

Target

Business Analysts, Business Systems Analysts, Project Leads

Number

Maximum 12 participants

Duration

3 Days

Z

Credits

21 PDU’s/CDU’s

Popularity

5 Stars

Rate

Call for pricing

Dates

Call to schedule

Purpose

To learn in depth, practical techniques to gather and define business requirements

The Requirements Discovery Process

  • The Software Development Life Cycle and The Requirements Discovery Process
  • Requirements Best Practices; Principles & Standards

Requirements Planning

  • Requirements Planning Activities
  • How to Discover & Describe Business and Project Objectives
  • How to Discover & Describe Project Scope

Requirements Elicitation

  • Methods to Elicit Requirements
  • How to Discover & Describe Business Activities
  • How to Discover & Describe Information Requirements

Requirements Analysis and Documentation

  • Documenting the Requirements
  • How to Discover & Describe Functional Requirements
  • How to Harvest & document the Business Rules

Requirements Verification and Review

  • Refining the Requirements

Requirements Validation and Acceptance

  • Prioritizing the Requirements

  • How to use the right elicitation techniques, models, steps and questions appropriate for the various stakeholder groups (users, senior management, non-technical, business subject-matter-experts, detail oriented, high-level, etc.)
  • Understand the critical success factors for a requirements meeting including setting SMART objectives and expectations, using a systematic process and questioning techniques, using visual modeling, keeping the meeting focused, using business language
  • Identify clients’ business needs easily, without needing to be a subject matter expert
  • How to work directly and interactively with business clients in defining project requirements
  • Conduct fast and efficient analysis – maximizing the time and resources of the company
  • How to apply industry best practices for discovering, describing and documenting requirements for various projects (new development, maintenance and package) and in various environments (iterative, incremental and waterfall)
  • Identify true user requirements versus “nice-to-have”
  • How to organize and model the information requirements into business objects and data elements
  • Learn the steps, questions and techniques for business process and data modeling – using such tools as context diagramming, use-case modeling, data flow diagramming, functional narratives, process modeling, data descriptions, entity relationship diagrams)
  • How to analyze client business requirements and produce requirement specifications
  • Complete a business requirement specification that’s ready for design, development or sourcing software
Business Analysis Competencies    Coverage    Objective
Analytical & Systems Thinking

S/I

A

Change Leadership

M/I

A

Requirements Planning

I/I

SD

Requirements Elicitation & Analysis

I/D

SD

Requirements Management

I/I

U

Client Relationship Management

M/I

A

Consensus & Agreement Building

M/I

U

Professional Knowledge

M/I

A

Modeling

I/D

SD

Communication

I/D

SD

Self-Management

M/I

A

Teamwork

M/I

A

Leadership

S/I

A

 

Coverage

 

Objective

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

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