Description
Description
The Mastering the Requirements Process workshop is designed to help business analysts and project managers effectively manage customer expectations and deliver successful projects. This hands-on training covers every stage of the requirements process—from discovery and documentation to validation and approval. Participants will learn best practices for gathering high-quality requirements, writing precise and measurable requirements statements, and ensuring they are properly communicated and signed off. By the end of the workshop, attendees will have the skills and confidence needed to produce and gain approval for a quality requirements document.
Training Objectives
- Key Learning Objectives
- Participants will gain the ability to:
- Apply business analysis concepts and techniques across tools and methodologies.
- Elicit and capture stakeholder requests and turn them into well-defined requirements.
- Write high-quality business functional and non-functional requirements.
- Communicate validate and gain stakeholder sign-off on the requirements document.
Course Outline
- Competencies Covered<
- Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring<
- Planning Business Analysis Approach<
- Elicitation & Collaboration<
- Conducting and confirming elicitation results<
- Requirements Life Cycle Management<
- Tracing, maintaining, prioritizing, assessing, and approving requirements<
- Requirements Analysis & Design Definition<
- Specifying, modeling, verifying, and validating requirements<
- Solution Evaluation<
- Measuring performance, assessing limitations, and recommending improvements<
- Underlying Competencies<
- Analytical Thinking & Problem-Solving, Business Knowledge, Communication, Interaction Skills, and Technology Tools<
- Course Outline Summary<
- Requirements Process<
- Recognizing the cost of poor requirements<
- Understanding the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)<
- Conducting as-is and to-be analysis<
- Planning requirements work and performing enterprise analysis<
- Requirements Essentials<
- Learning best practices for defining requirements<
- Differentiating requirements from design statements<
- Writing measurable and testable requirements<
- Understanding key components of requirements documentation<
- Business Case & Scope Definition<
- Identifying the components of business requirements<
- Defining system scope using a context diagram<
- Writing business requirements and creating context diagrams<
- Stakeholder Requirements<
- Mastering stakeholder interactions and elicitation techniques<
- Tracing and documenting stakeholder requirements<
- Conducting facilitated requirements sessions<
- Functional & Non-Functional Requirements<
- Defining functional requirements and mapping them to stakeholder needs<
- Using Use Cases and artifacts to build functional requirements<
- Developing non-functional requirements from business rules and stakeholder input<
- Requirements Communication & Validation<
- Learning best practices for effective requirements communication<
- Conducting requirements validation meetings with stakeholders<
- Justifying and refining requirements interactively<
- Gaining final approval to proceed with design and implementation<
- This workshop equips professionals with the essential tools and techniques to master the requirements process and deliver successful project outcomes.
