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The causes of the majority of failed information
technology (IT) projects can be traced to poor
definition and understanding of requirements.
Changing requirements create more delays
than any other factor. If you want to improve
project performance, you must improve the
way you define and manage requirements .
They are the bridge between the customer who
will describe, pay for, and use the system, and
the technical community who will specify and
provide the system .
Prerequisites
Basic project management training or
equivalent experience
Course Level
Intermediate
Who Should Attend
• Systems professionals or business associates
who will take part in defining requirements
for computer systems development,
business reengineering, procedural change,
or other activities that require the analysis of
a business system
Performance Focus
• Cultivating the skills needed to identify and
get full business information from the right
sponsors, clients, users, and others
• Acquiring structured and object-oriented
modeling techniques and templates to
identify and present business and systems
requirements clearly and effectively
What You Will Learn
You’ll learn how to:
• Determine who the stakeholders are
and establish roles and appropriate
requirements-gathering techniques
• Differentiate between business, user,
functional, and system requirements
• Gather requirements and create the User
Requirements Specification (URS) document
• Develop user and functional Use Cases
• Create the Software Requirements
Specification (SRS) document
Course Overview
Getting Started
• Introductions
• Course structure
• Course goals and objectives
Introduction to Requirements Management
• Objectives of projects
• The project environment
• Classifying projects
• Requirements for systems
• Levels of requirements
• Requirements documents
• User Requirements Specification
• Voice of the Customer
• Documenting the beginning of the project
• Stakeholder assessment
• Roles and responsibilities of stakeholders
• Creating the URS
Requirements Development
• Five levels of requirements maturity
• Requirements development and the major
activities
• Detailed descriptions of type of requirements
• Quality attributes and example of
requirements in traditional “shall” statements
• Requirements prioritization
• Requirements repository
Requirements Elicitation Tools
• Interviewing
• Objects and classes
• Class, package, and sequence diagrams
• What does a Use Case look like?
• Elements of a Use Case
• Types of Use Case – textual versus graphical
• Use Case and requirements collection
• Prototyping
• Storyboarding
• Brainstorming
• Requirements workshop
Requirements Analysis
• Structured analysis
• Context diagrams
• Data flow diagrams
• Entity relationship diagrams
• Structured English
• Data dictionary
• Decision table and decision tree
Requirements Specification
• Software Requirements Specification
• Identifying sources of requirements
• Labeling requirements
• Organizing requirements information
• Documenting business rules
• Creating a requirements traceability matrix
Requirements Verification and Control
• Requirements analysis and verification
• Requirements pre-reviews
• Requirements reviews
• Requirements checklists
• Test cases for verification
• Requirements testing
• Requirements change control
Summary
• What did we learn, and how can we
implement this in our work environments?
Requirements Management for IT Professionals
Managing Project Scope from Concept to Completion
#8827 / Four 3-hour sessions
CEU Credits: 1 . 2 / PDU Credits: 12
Price: USD 850
#5027 / 2 Days
CEU Credits: 1 . 4 / PDU Credits: 14 / CPE Credits: 16
Price: USD 1495
#PA8827 / Four 3-hour sessions
CEU Credits: 1 . 2 / PDU Credits: 12
Price: USD 850