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
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 |
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Change Leadership |
M/I |
A |
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Requirements Planning |
I/I |
SD |
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Requirements Elicitation & Analysis |
I/D |
SD |
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Requirements Management |
I/I |
U |
||
Client Relationship Management |
M/I |
A |
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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 |
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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 |