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Requirements Management
...Managing Project Needs, Scope and Requirements from Concept to Completion

Poor requirements definition and lack of adequate change control procedures to requirements and scope are the primary contributors to the project difficulty and failure. This workshop will provide you with the practical knowledge, tools and techniques required to minimize or avoid these pitfalls.


Prerequisite

Basic understanding of project management


Course Level

Intermediate/Advanced


Duration

2 Days


Who should attend?

You should attend this workshop if you need 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
  • Disseminated the principles of effective requirements management to the team members

Performance Focus

  • Key stakeholder and influencer identification and assessment
  • Requirements documentation
  • Requirements gathering
  • Formal specification
  • Change control
  • Configuration management
  • Requirements validation
  • Progressive elaboration
  • Modeling and structured methods (This training does NOT teach any specific model)

What You Will Learn

  • Build a consistent and meaningful requirements taxonomy and hierarchy for requirements definition and development
  • Validate requirements using reviews , walkthroughs and inspection
  • Elicit, organize and prioritize requirements
  • Systematically analyze, elaborate derive requirements at the appropriate levels of detail
  • Use checklist, questionnaires and document templates in the requirements development process
  • Negotiate and resolve requirements related conflicts among key project stakeholders
  • Managing changing requirements across the project lifecycle
  • Verify requirements during the testing and acceptance phase of the project

Content

Basic Outline of the Course:

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 management
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 statements
Work breakdown structure
Requirement definition document
Procurement statement of work
Contract and plans

Gathering Requirements Information
Requirements gathering techniques
Sources of information
Essential research skills
Requirements gathering tools
  Using Structured Technique and Modeling
Models and requirements
Data, process and object models
Dynamic modeling technique
Using use cases

Specifying Requirements
Specifying requirements
Essential technical writing skills
SMART requirements
Quality attributes
Prioritizing requirements

Managing Change Requirements
Why and when requirements change
Change management control
Requirement traceability
Requirement tools and templates (best in business)

Validating and Verifying Requirements
Requirements and confirmation techniques
Validating requirements
Verifying requirements
Using checklists

Soft skills essential for effective requirements management

Recap & Closing
 

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