Bottom-Line Business Analysis - Develop, Document and Manage Quality Requirements

Requirements make up the primary driving force of any project.  The quality of the requirements constitutes the quality of the project.  Incomplete or vague requirements create serious project risks and raise the probability of project failure.  This course provides thorough coverage and techniques to identify and document quality requirements that produce a quality product.

Participants will learn how to gather data, prioritize, elicit and document quality requirements based on business objectives.

Prerequisites: Business Analysis Foundations or equivalent experience

Duration: 2 days

PMI^® PDU credits: 16

IIBA^® CDU credits: 16

Course level: Novice to Intermediate

Schedule:    Please contact us for the current schedule of public and private classes
Contact:   Vicky Haney -  Vicky@vbhconsulting.com at 412-558-9282  

Who should attend:

o       Professionals that have already mastered the fundamentals of business analysis and require a higher degree of knowledge to develop precise business requirements

o       Business customers, users, project managers, systems architects and information professionals that are responsible for understanding and communicating business requirements

Key Learning Points:

1.      Learn to elicit and manage requirements form a realistic business case

2.      The Business Case for Requirements Engineering

a.      Definition of quality requirements

b.      The high cost of requirements errors

c.      The requirements roadmap and the Solution Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

3.      Elicitation skills

a.      Uncovering business rules

b.      Interview techniques with focus questions

4.      Requirements Development

a.      The Business Analysis Body of Knowledge

b.      Work as a team to analyze business artifacts to discover the requirements needed

c.      Learn to extract functional requirements from a process model

d.      Characteristics of well-written requirements, and how to evaluate and identify poor quality requirements

e.      Receive checklists for verifying requirements

5.      Requirements management

a.      The three important factors for prioritizing requirements

b.      Establishing requirements traceability

c.      Modeling techniques to verify requirements

d.      Discuss common problems associated with requirement specifications

Bring this course to your organization

Contact Vicky Haney at the address below.

Other Business Analysis training:

Business Analysis for the IT Professional

High Quality Business Requirements

Bottom-Line Business Analysis Series