REQUIREMENTS unstuck! Development and Management

The number-one reason projects fail is the lack of appropriate, clearly defined, well understood requirements. This seminar uses best practice techniques approved by IEEE and SEI for the development of successful requirements by gathering, eliciting, documenting, and analyzing techniques. The importance of prioritizing, validating, negotiating, and base-lining is emphasized. Best practices are then applied to management of changes to requirements.

What You Will Learn

• You will learn how to develop and write effective, solid requirements that will drive your project for
  success.
• You will find out how to efficiently elicit  the right requirements at the right time in the project cycle, reducing project slowdown.
• You will  understand the vital importance of  prioritizing and validating and refine your skills in base-lining.
• Finally, you will  discover how to analyze requirements and form an effective and clear requirements document.

How You Will Benefit

Participants will gain a clear understanding of easy steps to develop effective requirements and how to manage changes to these requirements.

You will improve team collaboration, saving you  and your team both time and effort throughout the project cycle.

An underlying benefit is improved communication and collaboration among team members and the end user.

The knowledge gained through this course will result in reduced cycle times for development, reduced cost, and improved quality of the overall project.

• Understand the Requirements Process
• Understand roles of stakeholders in generating requirements
• Identify needs vs. wants
• Identify levels of requirements: functional and non-functional
• Understand how business rules drive requirements
• Apply industry best practices in developing requirements
• Gather, elicit, document, and base-line good functional  requirements
• Write requirements using “A Day in the Life” or similar user  focused approach
• Analyze and negotiate requirements
• Understand the importance of prioritizing requirements
• Understand the importance of validating requirements
• Use requirement trees for managing hierarchical requirements
• Develop good performance based requirements
• Lead others in further breaking down requirements into  component specifications
• Develop quality requirements that can be acceptance tested
• Manage changes and track requirements

This seminar uses videos, teach backs, break out groups, role plays, and lecture with discussion.

Who Should Attend

Project managers, project coordinators, business analysts, project team members, functional supervisors and other business professionals working in projects

Delivery Format:
One day or two day instructor-led seminar