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Developing User Requirements: The Key to Project Success

 
Course: 315   Duration: 4 Days   PMI: 23   CPE: 23
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Write well-formed and validated user requirements
  • Organize and sequence requirements into a user requirements document
  • Prepare a plan for completing a user requirements project
  • Conduct efficient user requirements elicitation meetings
  • Analyze requirements using a process mapping methodology
  • Manage changes to the user requirements

Course Benefits

Successful projects begin by developing clear business and user requirements. This course provides the skills to write well-formed, testable, verifiable user requirements. You learn to enhance your requirements development processes and develop individual skills for getting the right information from your stakeholders.

Who Should Attend

Project and program managers, directors, sponsors and others involved in planning and writing requirements for projects. Those writing requirements for software development should consider, in addition to this course, Course 218, "User Requirements for Software Development."

RealityPlus™

Through an immersive, multimedia-enhanced and simulated case study, you gain practical experience writing well-formed and verifiable user requirements. Activities include:
  • Creating requirements documents based on authentic examples
  • Preparing for stakeholder interviews with video scenarios that put you at the meeting table
  • Analyzing, writing, validating and testing requirements via production simulations
  • Collaborating with others to foster new ideas and innovations
  • Analyzing different requirements approaches from various points of view to improve yourown process

Related Courses

 
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Training Dates

Live online classroom training.Participate in person or in live, online events (highlighted) via Learning Tree AnyWareTM.
Feb 14 - 17Reston, VA
Mar 6 - 9Toronto 
Mar 20 - 23Reston, VA
Mar 27 - 30Chicago (Schaumburg)
Apr 10 - 13New York 
Apr 17 - 20Annapolis, MD 
May 1 - 4Los Angeles 
May 8 - 11Ottawa 
May 8 - 11Philadelphia 
May 15 - 18Reston, VA
May 29 - Jun 1Rockville, MD
Jun 5 - 8New York 
Jun 5 - 8Toronto 
Jun 12 - 15Reston, VA
Jun 19 - 22Atlanta 

For AnyWare enrollments, please register at least 10 days prior to the start of the course.


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Developing User Requirements: The Key to Project Success

 
Course: 315   Duration: 4 Days   PMI: 23   CPE: 23
 
 
Course 315 Content
 

Introduction

  • Guiding standards: Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK®) and PMBOK® Guide—Fourth Edition
  • Requirements classification scheme
  • The requirements development process: elicit, analyze, specify, validate and manage
  • Challenges to developing effective requirements

Planning a Requirements Project

Interpreting existing documentation

  • Requirements throughout the organization
  • Analyzing business cases and project history
  • Identifying stakeholders
  • Determining project scope

Creating a project action plan

  • Identifying and managing requirements
  • Elements of an action plan
  • Writing a plan for a simulated project

Eliciting Requirements from Stakeholders

Planning elicitation meetings

  • Choosing the right people to interview
  • Selecting the best interview methodology
  • Constructing questions that deliver results
  • Identifying other data sources

Facilitating elicitation meetings

  • One-on-one meetings
  • Group meetings
  • Dysfunctional meetings
  • Meetings with senior executives

Analyzing Requirements with Process Maps

Process-mapping methodologies

  • Process-mapping procedure and materials
  • Creating process maps

Other analysis methodologies

  • Creating outlines
  • Applying alternative graphical models
  • Performing gap analyses

Completing the analysis

  • Prioritizing requirements with creative techniques
  • Completing a requirements analysis worksheet

Writing and Assembling the Requirements Document

Gathering the pieces

  • Extracting requirements from a requirements analysis worksheet
  • Utilizing templates

Key writing skills

  • Principles of well-formed requirements
  • Word sensitivity, syntax and active voice
  • Well-formed vs. ill-formed requirements
  • Editing and rewriting requirements
  • The top five challenges to creating well-formed requirements

Organizational skills and traceability

  • Organizing requirements into a readable document
  • Sequencing and numbering strategies
  • Linking requirements to business needs and test cases
  • Creating a traceability strategy for the organization

Validating Requirements

Applying validation skills

  • Selecting the best validation methods
  • Validation checklists
  • Methods for conducting a walk-through

Writing testable requirements

  • Checking the testability of requirements
  • Test cases for requirements

Managing Changes to Update Your Document

What you can expect

  • Types of changes
  • Frequency, magnitude of changes

Navigating the change process

  • Conducting a change meeting
  • Managing change requests
  • Accepting and rejecting changes

Integrating Requirements into Your Organization

  • Choosing the right requirements management tools
  • Selecting appropriate requirements standards
  • Defining an ideal requirements process
 
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Course: 315   Duration: 4 Days   PMI: 23   CPE: 23
 
 
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