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How important are effective business requirements? Studies have shown that at least most product defects originate in the requirements. And rework on a development project can be traced back to requirement defects. In fact, the most recent version of PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge), version 4, and all of BABOK (Business Analysis Body of Knowledge) emphasize the vital value and importance of Requirements to enable success.
These days, every system dollar is scrutinized and squeezed. One of the greatest improvement opportunities for an IT organization is to define requirements correctly yet productively.
Irrespective of the development methodology, business requirements must clearly define what the system is supposed to do. This 3-day seminar addresses a broad range of business analysis skills that will help you extract the right information from the business users, maximize your requirements gathering productively and create requirements to support the design, development, testing, and deployment of successful system solutions.
Who Should Attend
- Business and Systems Analysts
- Project managers who want to enable the value BA’s on their projects
- Developers considering making the transition to BA
- Business professionals who liaise with I.T. groups on behalf of their business areas
- Testing professionals who want to define and leverage great requirements
- Technical and QA Analyst
- IT Manager
Whether you are working towards your PMP® (Project Management Professional) or Certified Business Analysis Professional CBAP® (Certified Business Analysis Professional) designation, or already have these designation, this course is a must to enable your on-the-job success.
Materials
- Course workbook
- A CD containing course reference materials
- Certificate of completion (framed for in-house clients)
Learning Objectives
Participants of this course will understand…
The importance of requirements in relation to PMBOK
- The value, structure and elements high quality requirements
- The business analysts' role in requirements gathering
- The types of requirements
How You Will Benefit
Participants of this workshop will be able to;
- Create high quality requirements
- Use 9 requirement gathering techniques
- Link requirements to business strategies, business drivers and needs
- Analyze business processes to determine business requirements
- Gather information to define and document of requirements without relying strictly on interviewing
- Creatively examine and select alternate solutions to business problems
- Harvest business need information from your stakeholder community
- Create thorough and useful business requirements
- Integrate business requirements into a variety of system development methodologies
- Efficiently obtain approvals and sign-offs
- Trace and manage changes to requirements documents throughout the SDLC
- Facilitate requirements workshops
- Establish a traceability protocol to link business requirements to design, development, testing, and deployment activities
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Click here for the full PDF course description and outline.
For information on how to arrange for an in-house delivery of this course, or for information on the location and dates for public deliveries of this course, contact in-house@wcpconsulting.com or call 905-660-7184.
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