TARGET AUDIENCE

DURATION

• Project stakeholders and team members
• Anyone responsible for initiating or managing projects who wants to learn how to deliver successful projects

COURSE DESCRIPTION

TOOLS & TEMPLATES

This course teaches participants how to elicit, characterize, document, analyze, validate, verify and manage requirements for new projects, products and services.

Course participants receive a course manual and CD with tools and templates for gathering, recording, and managing requirements.

COURSE OUTLINE

Eliciting Requirements

• Defining high-level business requirements
• Identifying user classes & representatives
• Selecting elicitation techniques
• Eliciting functional & non-functional requirements from users
• Identifying business rules
• Reviewing requirements with users

Requirements Analysis

• Clarifying complex and unclear requirements
• Evaluating & prioritizing requirements

Requirements Documentation

• Naming conventions and definitions
• Documenting relevant facts and assumptions

Requirements during the Design & Build Phase

• Match product to prioritized requirements
• Requirements-based quality control
• Establishing a stakeholder acceptance process

Requirements Change Control

• Establishing document version control
• Establishing change control process
• Tracking changes

Requirements Verification

• Verifying requirements
• Creating requirements traceability

Requirements during Testing and Acceptance

• Establishing requirements-based performance and acceptance tests
• Requirements-based redesign & rework

Requirements and Closing a Project

• Acceptance of deliverables
• Project documentation closeout process