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All About Requirements

Course Summary

The All About Requirements training course is designed to increase the awareness, understanding, and skills needed to successfully obtain project specifications from stakeholders.

 

The course begins by addressing the need to properly understand an audience. Next, it examines ways to refine needs in the context of the 3 types of requirements. The course concludes with a look at how to communicate for transparency by defining what key messages are best for each audience type, as well as looking at the processes of Roadmap/Release Plan and Review Meetings.

 

Prerequisites: Any requirements associated with a real project to apply what is learned. This will help to elicit, scope, document, and communicate those requirements for a project in class.

Purpose
Learn how to identify, communicate, and utilize project requirements with stakeholders
Audience
Project Managers wanting to advance their requirements elicitation skills
Role
Business Analyst | Project Manager | Technical Manager
Skill Level
Intermediate
Style
Lecture | Hands-on Activities
Duration
2 Days
Related Technologies
Professional Development for Software Engineers | Project Management

 

Learning objectives
  • Define your impacted groups and develop personas
  • Determine audience preferences
  • Perform Stakeholder Analysis
  • Write "good" success criteria
  • Describe "good" user-based requirements
  • Comprehend the value of using a Roadmap/Release Plan and Review Meeting

What You'll Learn:

In the All About Requirements training course, you'll learn:

Know Your Audience

  • Define impacted groups and develop personas
  • Determine audiences' preferences and needs through usage of a Stakeholder Analysis
  • Understand the value of Coherent Communication techniques
  • Define value and quality on a project

Understand the Need

  • Review the value of a vision statement
  • Learn and practice how to write "good" success criteria
  • Understand multiple prioritization method options
  • Understand the value of prioritization criteria

Refine the Need

  • Review the 3 types of requirements
    • Business requirements
    • User-based requirements
    • System requirements.
  • Learn and practice how to write "good" user-based requirements

Communication for Transparency

  • Define key messages
  • Determine what key messages are best for each audience type
  • Review the value of using a Roadmap/Release Plan
  • Review the value of Review Meetings in sharing what has been complete and gathering new ideas
real world content

Real-World Content

Project-focused demos and labs using your tool stack and environment, not some canned "training room" lab.
expert practitioners

Expert Practitioners

Industry experts that bring their battle scars into the classroom.
experiential learning

Experiential Learning

More coding than lecture, coupled with architectural and design discussions.
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Tailored Outlines

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