Description
Learn in a classroom environment with your peers, virtually, with an instructor online.
Course Length: 2 Days
Target Audience: General
Synopsis
The goal of this course is to enhance the skill set needed for writing and managing the complex requirements that Business Analysts interact with on a day-to-day basis throughout the product lifecycle.
Learning Objectives
At the end of the course, you should be able to:
- Plan a requirements documentation process to produce documentation that meets specific quality criteria.
- Write a requirements document that meets appropriate quality criteria.
- Baseline a requirements document.
Manage the changes to requirements documents through the product life cycle.
Course Outline
- Getting Started
- The role of the Business Analyst
- The BABOK® Knowledge Areas
- The Business Analyst & the product/project life cycle
- The requirements documentation process
- Planning for Effective Requirements Analysis
- Overview of Requirements Planning
- Planning for validation
- Planning for verification: well-formed criteria
- Planning for verification: understood & usable criteria
- Writing Effective Requirements Documents
- Overview of Writing Requirements Documents
- Using a standard structure/template
- Applying formatting techniques
- Meeting the challenge of writing non-functional requirements
- Baselining Requirements
- Overview of the Requirements Baseline Process
- Validation
- Verification
- Approval
- Managing Requirements Change
- Overview of Requirements Change Management
- Establishing a formal Change Management Process
- Tracing requirements through Design and Development (Build, Test, and Implementation)
- Following through to Post-Implementation
Supplement Material
A student manual is available for the learner to follow during the instructor’s presentation.
Benefits to the participants
Throughout the activities, the learners will look at ways to write and manage requirements and the importance of ensuring they are clear and precise.
Course Evaluation
A course evaluation will be completed by the learners once the course is finished.
Note: The course outline may be subject to change.
