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Poor requirements definition, and lack of
adequate change control procedures to
requirements and scope, are the primary
contributors to project difficulty and failure .
This workshop will provide you with the
knowledge, tools, and techniques required
to minimize or avoid these pitfalls.
Prerequisites
A good working knowledge of project
management, as well as some experience
managing projects
Course Level
Intermediate/Advanced
Who Should Attend
• Anyone with a role that requires you to:
- Acquire and accurately communicate
project requirements
- Negotiate trade-offs that result in
potentially more successful projects
- Effectively manage change control
- Implement configuration management
consistent with organizational needs
- Disseminate the principles of effective
requirements management to other team
members
Performance Focus
• Identifying and assessing key stakeholders
and influencers
• Documenting requirements
• Utilizing progressive elaboration
• Analyzing and negotiating requirements
• Validating requirements
• Using modeling and structured methods
• Using formal specification
• Performing change control
• Performing configuration management
What You Will Learn
You’ll learn how to:
• Build a consistent and meaningful
requirements taxonomy and hierarchy for
requirements definition and development
• Use progressive elaboration and modeling
techniques in requirements workshops to
elicit and verify requirements
• Validate requirements using reviews,
walkthroughs, and inspections
• Elicit, organize, and prioritize requirements
• Systematically analyze, elaborate, and derive
requirements at the appropriate levels of
detail
• Use checklists, questionnaires, and
document templates in the requirements
development process
• Negotiate and resolve requirements-related
conflicts among key project stakeholders
• Manage changing requirements across the
project life cycle
• Verify requirements during the testing and
acceptance phase of the project
Course Overview
Getting Started
• Introductions
• Course structure
• Course goals and objectives
Requirements Framework
• Project and product requirements definitions
• Characteristics of good requirements
• Enumeration of those involved in defining
project requirements
• Concept of progressive elaboration and its
application to defining requirements
Developing Requirements: the Process
• High-level requirements development and
management process
• Iterative components of the requirements
development process
• Product and project requirements
• Classifying project requirements
Progressively Elaborating Product Scope
• Defining and elaborating scope
- Starting requirements definition
- Project work request
- Requirements overview
- Project proposal
- Project charter
• More detailed documents
- Scope statement
- Work Breakdown Structure ( WBS)
- Requirements definition document
- Procurement statement of work
• Contracts and plans
Gathering Requirements Information
• Requirements gathering techniques
• Sources of information
• Essential research skills
• Requirements gathering tools
Using Structured Techniques and Modeling
• Models and requirements
• Data, process, and object models
• Dynamic modeling techniques
• Using Use Cases
Specifying Requirements
• Specifying requirements
• Essential technical writing skills
• SMART requirements
• Quality attributes
• Prioritizing requirements
Managing Changing Requirements
• Why and when requirements change
• Change management and control
• Requirements traceability
• Requirement tools
Validating and Verifying Requirements
• Requirements confirmation techniques
• Validating requirements
• Verifying requirements
• Using checklists
Summary
• What did we learn, and how can we
implement this in our work environments?
Requirements Management
Managing Project Scope from Concept to Completion
#8822 / Four 3-hour sessions
CEU Credits: 1 . 2 / PDU Credits: 12
Price: USD 850
#PA8822 / Four 3-hour sessions
CEU Credits: 1 . 2 / PDU Credits: 12
Price: USD 850
#5001 / 2 Days
CEU Credits: 1 . 4 / PDU Credits: 14 / CPE Credits: 16
Price: USD 1495
