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

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.

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