Gathering and Managing Project Requirements Training Course

This Requirements Management course will teach you how to gather requirements, document and analyze them.  It examine how to plan, identify and estimate requirements activities, control requirements scope, identify and manage requirements risk, track metrics for projects and products, and manage requirements change.  It will cover the various elicitation techniques, requirements analysis and modeling, requirements documentation, and, finally, requirements communication and implementation.

In today’s projects, the biggest success factor is how well the project requirements have been collected and validated.  Requirements are the basic components that make up the scope of any project.  Project managers and business analysts must plan and closely identify and manage requirements for a project in accordance with existing standards in an organization. First, they must identify key roles and stakeholders and decide on a work division strategy.  Working with requirements involves identifying the activities to be undertaken in order to identify requirements, identifying the risks associated with various project requirements, and managing project scope as it relates to requirements.

This course is aligned with the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®) published by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA™), and can be used towards the training preparation for the IIBA’s Certified Business Analysis Professional™ (CBAP™) certification.

IIBA, Business Analysis Body of Knowledge, BABOK, Certified Business Analysis Professional, CBAP are registered trademarks owned by the International Institute of Business Analysis.

Business analysis is the discipline of identifying business needs and determining solutions to business problems. Solutions often include a systems development component, but may also consist of process improvement, organizational change or strategic planning and policy development. The person who carries out this task is called a business analyst or BA.

Those BA’s who work solely on developing software systems may be called IT Business Analysts, Technical Business Analysts, Online Business Analysts or Systems Analysts.

Business analysis, as a discipline, has a heavy overlap with requirements analysis sometimes also called requirements engineering, but focuses on identifying the changes to an organization that are required for it to achieve strategic goals. These changes include changes to strategies, structures, policies, processes, and information systems.

• Understand the fundamentals of requirements management
• Understand what the different types of requirements are
• Understand key tasks involved in requirements planning and management
• Learn how to identify stakeholders
• Learn how to identify and divide the requirements activities roles and responsibilities
• Understand requirements-elicitation best practices and the challenges that they overcome
• Learn how to document project requirements
• Understand the critical link between requirements and scope verification
• Learn how to manage conflicting requirements appropriately
• Learn to manage requirements scope and change using a traceability matrix
• Identify requirements risks and develop response strategies
• Identify the often-ignored transition requirements that could lead to project failure

Course is presented as PowerPoint presentations that are explained by the instructor, while keeping students engaged via real-life examples and topic discussions. Flip boards and charts will be used to demonstrate key points.

IT professionals, IT Managers, Project Managers, Program Managers, project coordinators, project specialists, business analysts, business systems analysts, systems analysts, requirements engineers, process analysts, product managers, product owners, enterprise analysts, business architects, management consultants, software development engineers, quality assurance, and interaction design.

Course will be conducted over a period of 2 days, starting from 8:30 AM and ending at 2:30 PM* daily, with allowances for short refreshment breaks, and lunch break. *For in-house courses, timings can be customized by mutual agreement.

Understanding Requirements

• Definition of a Requirement
• Requirements and Project Scope Verification – the critical link
• Types of Requirements
• Requirements Failure
• How is project failure tied to requirements failure?

Requirements Planning

• Identifying Requirements Management Approach
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Roles & Responsibilities for Requirements
• Identifying Requirements Gathering and Analysis Activities
• Determining how Requirements will be documented & communicated
• Requirements Management strategy for changes, risks, conflicts
• Developing the Requirements schedule and Performance Metrics

Requirements Elicitation

• What is Requirement Elicitation?
• Elicitation Techniques
• Preparing for Requirement Elicitation
• Conducting Elicitation Activity
• Documenting Elicitation Results
• Confirming Elicitation Results

Requirements Analysis & Management

• Prioritizing & Organizing Requirements
• Verifying & Validating Requirements
• Requirements Traceability
• Dealing with Requirements conflicts
• Managing Requirements Change
• Defining Project Transition Requirements

At the completion of this training program, each attendee will each be awarded an IIBA endorsed Certificate of Attendance for 14 CDU’s and a PMI Endorsed Certificate worth 14 Professional Development Units (PDU’s), which be used towards the hours needed for renewing PMI credentials.