Defining and Managing Business Requirements

Successful projects are highly dependent on well-defined and understood business requirements, product requirements, and specifications. Investments in requirements processes have proven to be key contributors to delivering projects on time and on budget with the required product functions and features that meet or exceed those requirements.

This 3-day program focuses on the requirements management process. Using a real-life workshop exercise, you will define the real problem, assess the business impact, identify and manage stakeholders’ expectations. We will use elicitation tools and techniques to discover real requirements that contribute to deliverable solutions that produce desired outcomes. You will develop deliverable lists and discover overlooked requirements. We will discuss requirements verification, traceability and change management. You will prioritize and select the best requirement solutions and present in a business case format.

Learning Objectives

Participants will gain practical skills to:

• Utilize an enterprise requirements management processes and improve project success
• Use a Plan-Build-Test-Deploy requirements management model
• Identify project stakeholders, and discover and define their real problems
• Realize and uncover real requirements using various methods and tools
• Create great questions to ask in surveys, interviews, shadowing users, and JAD
• Discover functional requirements that deliver value to business requirements
• Document requirements clearly using standard formats and use cases
• Analyze, verify, validate requirements
• Refine, manage, control changes to requirements
• Use a hierarchical solution selection process to build a foundation for future requirements
• Conduct financial analysis of requirements solution(s) for benefits realization
• Prioritize, select and present the best requirements solutions to problems/opportunities
• Transfer a practical requirements management methodology back to your workplace

Who Should Attend

The Defining and Managing Business Requirements course is appropriate for individuals who are:

• Project Managers
• Senior Managers, Product Managers
• Developers, Quality Assurance resources
• Subject matter experts, other project resources

Prerequisite

There is no prerequisite for this stand-alone course.

Materials

The course binder contains presentation content, case studies, exercises, and suggested solutions.

What You Will Learn