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Project Management Scope Development
Requirements Development and Gathering
Developing User Requirements
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.
Course Outline
Foundations for Well-Formed Requirements
Guiding principles
- The requirements process: elicit, analyze, specify, validate and manage
- The top five challenges to creating well-formed requirements
- Elements of a high-quality requirements document
Key writing skills
- Principles of well-formed requirements
- Word sensitivity, syntax and active voice
- Well-formed vs. ill-formed requirements
- Editing and rewriting requirements
Applying validation skills
- Selecting the best validation methods
- Writing test cases
Organizational skills
- Organizing requirements into a readable document
- Sequencing and numbering strategies
- Validation checklists
- Methods for conducting a walkthrough
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
Assembling the Requirements Document
Gathering the pieces
- Extracting requirements from a requirements analysis worksheet
- Writing test cases for requirements
Ensuring traceability
- Linking requirements to business needs and test cases
- Creating a traceability strategy for the organization
Building the elements
- Templates for documents
- Planning document distribution
- Conducting a walkthrough for completeness
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