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Developing User Requirements: The Key to Project Success

 
Course: 315   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

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.

Who Should Attend

Project and program managers, directors, sponsors and others involved in planning and writing requirements for projects. Those implementing requirements for software development should take Course 218, "User Requirements for Software Development."

Course Workshop

Through an immersive, multimedia-enhanced and simulated case study, you gain practical experience writing well-formed and verifiable user requirements. Activities include:
  • Creating requirements documents based on authentic examples
  • Preparing for stakeholder interviews with video scenarios that put you at the meeting table
  • Analyzing, writing, validating and testing requirements via production simulations
  • Collaborating with others to foster new ideas and innovations
  • Analyzing different requirements approaches from various points of view to improve your own process

Related Courses

 
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Upcoming Dates

Dec 2 - 5, 2008
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
Dec 9 - 12, 2008
 New York
Dec 9 - 12, 2008
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Dec 16 - 19, 2008
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Jan 6 - 9, 2009
 Philadelphia
Jan 13 - 16, 2009
 Toronto
Jan 20 - 23, 2009
 Chicago (Downtown)
Feb 10 - 13, 2009
 New York
Feb 10 - 13, 2009
 Ottawa
Feb 10 - 13, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Feb 17 - 20, 2009
 Los Angeles
Mar 3 - 6, 2009
 Baltimore
Mar 17 - 20, 2009
 Toronto
Mar 17 - 20, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Mar 24 - 27, 2009
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)

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Developing User Requirements: The Key to Project Success

 
Course: 315   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course 315 Content
 

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
 
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Developing User Requirements: The Key to Project Success Tuition

 
Course: 315   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,790 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,800 10-Day Pass
$ 1,670 Training Passport
$ 1,700 Premium-Pass
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,515 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,484 Government Discount
 

 

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  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

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