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Project Requirements: Definition and Management
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This course is designed to support those Business Analysts who are chiefly concerned with developing high quality requirements for waterfall and agile projects. Students are shown techniques that can prevent problems that commonly compromise requirements quality in each project methodology. Numerous hands-on exercises give participants ample opportunity to learn relevant tools and techniques. Special attention and significant time are given to eliciting, analyzing, and recording requirements information in multiple formats. Topics include:
- The value of Business Analysis
- Waterfall and Agile project methodologies
- Roles of the Business Analyst
- Stakeholder identification and engagement
- Waterfall projects:
- The requirements development process
- Planning the requirements engagement
- Elicitation; Analysis; Documentation
- Proofing the Requirements Document
- Agile projects:
- BA role in agile
- Agile requirements model
- Product and iteration backlogs
- Conversation-based discovery
- Epics, user stories, enablers, and themes
- Verifying and Validating Requirements
- Requirements management
- Solution validation
Who should attend
This course is of particular value to business analysts, project managers and other project staff with direct or indirect responsibility for requirements definition and analysis; functional managers with project responsibility; Project Management Office staff; and managers of business analysts.
Prerequisites
This business analysis course assumes that participants have participated in some projects and have some experience in requirements definition and analysis. There is no requirement that attendees complete any specific training in advance of this course.
Course Outline
1. Introduction to Business Analysis
- Business Analysis
- Agile and waterfall project methodologies
- Roles of the BA
- Value of Business Analysis
2. The Business Analyst
- IIBA® BABOK Guide®; Agile Extension®
- IIBA® Core Concepts Model
- The BA in waterfall and agile projects
- BA competencies
3. Stakeholder Collaboration Skills
- Stakeholder identification and analysis
- Fostering stakeholder engagement
- Collaborative Games
4. Understanding Project Requirements
- Definition and types of requirements
- Business Rules
- Waterfall requirements lifecycle
- Agile requirements model
- Features, Epics, Enablers, and Themes
- User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
- Benefits of good requirements
5. Solution Definition
- Problem assessment
- Root cause analysis and Pareto
- Needs analysis and Solution definition
- The Business Case
- The Vision and Scope Document / Agile Vision Document
6. Requirements Planning
- Requirements context
- Understanding Project Scope
- Business Analysis Plan
- Planning for Iteration Zero
- Product and Iteration Backlogs
- Slicing Stories from Epics
- User Story Acceptance Criteria
- Benefits of planning
7. Requirements Elicitation
- An iterative and investigative approach
- Requirements elicitation
- Elicitation techniques
- Requirements Versus Design
- Choose the best elicitation technique
8. Analyzing Requirements
- Requirements analysis and models
- Value of graphical models
- Personas
- Imposing order on chaos
- Review models with stakeholders
9. Documenting Requirements
- Requirements documentation options
- Methods for recording requirements
- Requirements quality characteristics
- Consequences of poor requirements quality
10. Managing Requirements
- Verifying and Validating Requirements
- Using Requirements Traceability
- Validating the requirements document
- Requirements approval
- Managing requirements; Change Control
- Requirements re-use
- Requirements Harmonization
- Retrospectives
- Keeping the Focus on Value
- Solution Validation; Increment readiness
- Assessing for Business Value
11. Final Course Review
This course includes over 20 hands-on exercises, discussions, and group activities that reinforce comprehension and retention.
Learning Approach
- A highly qualified instructor will use interactive lecture format, numerous hands-on exercises, team activities, group discussions, and other techniques to drive home the essential points of this material.
- We will build on your prior experience in this topic, while providing you with a structure and vocabulary to use in all of your future projects.
- If you have modest requirements development knowledge, you will find that the clarity of the material and direct presentation style of the instructor will make the subject matter easy to understand.
- You will receive a Participant Guide which will help you follow the material, take notes and retain what you learned so that you can apply it on your job.
Why should I take this course?
- Experienced Business Analysts will acquire a rigorous method and vocabulary that they can apply to their work.
- If you are new to requirements management, the exercises in this business analyst training course will give insights into many important concepts and techniques.
- All participants take home a set of best practices, tools and techniques to help them deal with all aspects of project requirements elicitation, analysis and management.
- Take this BABOK ® Guide compliant BA course and learn how to avoid many of the problems that Business Analysts most often encounter.
Licensing
Use this courseware to teach your students! This course is available under license to qualified Training Providers. Courseware materials include:
- Instructor slides
- Instructor manual with timing guide
- Printed participant guide
- Train the Trainer instruction
- Written for classroom or virtual delivery
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All of our courses are fully compliant with the latest release of each relevant standards document such as the PMBOK® Guide, Standard for Portfolio Management, BABOK® Guide, and others.
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