Gathering and Documenting Requirements

OCI - Education & Training - Gathering and Documenting Requirements

Schedule


Course Location Begin Date End Date Time Hours Register
Gathering and Documenting Requirements CAIT - St. Louis Mar 08, 2012 Mar 09, 2012 9-4:30 pm 12 CAIT
  CAIT - St. Louis Apr 10, 2012 Apr 19, 2012 T/Th, 5:30-8:30 pm 12 CAIT
  CAIT - St. Louis Aug 13, 2012 Aug 14, 2012 M-T, 9-4:30pm 12 CAIT

Goals
How to Develop Specifications That Drive Quality Business System Results

The business analyst has been described as the person who bridges the divide between IT departments and the business organizations they support. For all of the tools and techniques to elicit requirements, nothing is more important than making the most of human contact between these two interdependent groups.

This seminar discusses several useful approaches to gathering requirements, focusing on the facilitation of collaborative sessions.

BABoK (TM) Compliance - This seminar thoroughly covers the Requirements Elicitation knowledge area, and provides significant coverage of the Requirements Analysis and Documentation and Requirements Communication knowledge areas.

After completing this seminar, participants will be able to:

  • Understand business analyst roles, responsibilities, disciplines, and skills
  • Apply best practices for problem analysis, and define "superior" requirement set
  • Learn techniques for selecting the proper requirements gathering tools
  • Define an approach for communicating with stakeholders and managing expectations
  • Understand elicitation techniques, their benefits and drawbacks
  • Learn to profile a project and determine the appropriate documentation style
  • Create a comprehensive set of use cases and detailed requirements specifications
  • Establish a requirements change control process

Audience
  • Business analysis managers
  • Business or technical analysts
  • Operations and project managers
  • Requirements engineers
  • IT or development managers
  • Systems analysts or managers

Duration
2 Days

Prerequisites
None

Contents
  • An effective Business Analyst
    • Skills
    • Roles and responsibilities
    • Organizational considerations
  • Requirements framework
    • Requirements plan
    • Types of requirements
    • Gathering process
    • Planning and preparation
  • Elicitation techniques
    • Brainstorming
    • Job shadowing/observation
    • Surveys/interviews/focus groups
    • Collaborative work sessions
    • Prototyping
    • Document/interface analysis
  • Documenting requirements
    • Guidelines for good requirements
    • Avoiding requirements errors/defects
    • Use cases
    • Categorizing and packaging
    • Documentation techniques
    • Requirement management/change control
    • Reusability

Format
Lecture