Course description
Requirements Development, Documentation and Management
Your projects success depends on your ability to develop and document project requirements.
In this course, you will learn to follow a practical methodology of developing, documenting, and managing your project requirements. With a hands-on approach, you will work through the requirements process from start to finish. You will learn how to distinguish one type of requirement from another, and how your writing must change in each. You will also learn steps for sign-off, and how to manage the requirements baseline.
Hands-On Exercises:
- Document the Current Environment and Proposed Scope for Case Study
- Create Charter and ID Team
- Identify Stakeholders for Case Study
- Case Study: Create Elicitation Plan, Create Interview Event, Create Workshop Event
- Case Study: Modeling Functional Requirements: Use Diagrams, Data Modeling, ERD
- Develop Requirements Document Templates
- Develop Requirements Change Flowchart
- Critique and Make Improvements to a Case Study Requirements Document
How You Will Benefit
- Build high-performance teams that can lead projects to successful implementation
- Keep the team on track through team consensus and conflict resolution
- Minimize communication misunderstandings
- Prevent team “break-ups” by using constructive feedback
- Achieve better results through clear, open and honest communication
- Optimize time, money and resources by putting the right people on the right projects
Upcoming start dates
Who should attend?
Systems analysts, business analysts, requirements analysts, developers, software engineers, IT project managers, project managers, project analysts, project leaders, senior project managers, team leaders, program managers, testers, and QA specialists.
Training content
- Types of requirements including business, stakeholder, functional, non-functional, and transition requirements
- Elicitation techniques and their advantages and disadvantages for the various requirements stakeholders
- Analysis and modeling of requirements
- Types of requirement documents
- Best practices for requirements writing
- How to avoid requirements writing pitfalls
- Steps for requirements verification, validation, and sign-off
- Requirements management processes including data management, tracing, and change management
Certification / Credits
Credits: 28 PDU
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