By mastering the project requirements process, business analysts and project managers can better manage customers’ expectations and satisfy their needs. Requirements discovery is the first step to a successful project. This workshop focuses on the skills necessary to thoroughly gather requirements from stakeholders, procedures, system components, and various business documents. Quality requirements statements are the next step in a successful project. This workshop provides the best practices to write specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and traceable, requirements statements. Finally, requirements must be properly communicated, validated and signed off to achieve a successful project outcome. By the end of this course, participants will have accomplished all three. Overall the workshop is designed to give participants the skills, hands-on application and confidence they need to tackle any project by producing and gaining approval for a quality requirements document.

Audience:

Those who need an advanced and detailed approach to defining business/technical requirements and implementing new processes or methodologies.

Prerequisites

Previous professional experience in business analysis is required

Course duration:

3 days

Course outline:

1. Introduction

• What is a Requirement?
• Workshop Objectives
• Analysis Work
• Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) Companies
• Workshop Agenda
• The Cost of Bad Requirements
• The System Development Life Cycle
• Workshop Logistics