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  Course Catalog : Systems Development and Testing :

Business Requirements Workshop

2 day

Course # 12-0200


Description

This interactive workshop provides an opportunity to develop and refine skills for defining business, user, and system requirements. The workshop reviews techniques for gathering, verifying, and documenting business requirements. It discusses prioritization, explains the importance of tracing requirements, and provides extended exercises, using case study scenarios or actual projects.

Audience
IT professionals who are involved in the analysis, design, and development of systems.

Maximum number of participants: 12

Prerequisites
Participants should be familiar with the basics of analysis and design.

Classroom Requirements
Room set up as horseshoe and large enough for team activities, or with break-out rooms for team activities.

Overhead projector, flipcharts.

 

 


Format

  • Presentation
  • Written Exercises
  • Interactive Activities

Objectives
After completing this course, participants should be able to:

  • Recognize the implications of business drivers and goals for defining business requirements
  • Describe typical stakeholders and their views of business requirements
  • Define categories of requirements and business requirements within the categories
  • Apply techniques that facilitate information gathering and verification
  • Document requirements in an organized manner
  • Apply techniques that prioritize requirements
  • Describe the process for translating requirements into specifications
  • Prepare a Requirements Document




Topics


Introduction

Business Drivers and Goals

  • Customers, competition, and change
  • Recognizing industry and company drivers

Requirements

  • Stakeholders and requirements
  • Case study scenario

Information Gathering

  • Problems in information gathering
  • Organizing and recording information
  • Techniques for communicating information
  • Information sources
    • Customer documents and environment
    • Completeness and accuracy

Documentation Requirements

  • Organizing and recording information
    • Requirements document
  • Interpreting requirements


 


Verifying Requirements

  • Verification and validation
    • Identifying requirements for validation
    • Verification tactics
  • Negotiation
    • Negotiating tactics
    • Negotiating with subject matter experts

Prioritizing Requirements

  • Analysis techniques
  • Individual and group prioritization

Measuring and Testing Requirements

  • Testing
  • Input to testing

Specifications

  • Functional specifications
    • Specification process
    • Levels of detail
  • Conclusion