Requirements Development, Documentation and Management

Days: 4 day
Price: $2495

Course Details

In this course, you will further explore the business analysis lifecycle in both waterfall and agile projects, with a focus on planning, documentation, analysis, management, and communication activities.

You will:

  • Engage in up-front enterprise analysis to ensure that scope and problem statements are clear
  • Build on the planning skills covered in Business Analysis Essentials to create a comprehensive business analysis plan
  • Analyze the impact and influence of stakeholders to enable more effective elicitation of requirements
  • Learn about how and when to use modeling techniques used in business analysis, and practice creating swimlane diagrams, use case models and descriptions, user stories, state diagrams, data dictionaries, and entity relationship diagrams
  • Write effective requirements and accurately revise existing requirements to meet quality criteria
  • Effectively manage the requirements to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and consistency in communication; to ensure requirements traceability, and to manage change
  • Plan a review process to ensure the validity of requirements

This course is aligned with IIBA's A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK

Course Agenda

1. Foundations

  • BA Lifecycle
  • Waterfall vs. Agile
  • Documenting and Managing Requirements
  • Types of Requirements
  • Types of BA Roles
  • Risks, Assumptions, and Constraints
  • Product vs. Project Scope
  • IIBA and PMI

2. Strategy Analysis

  • SMART Objectives
  • Scope and Problem Statements
  • Business Needs
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Business Requirements
  • Business Case
  • Product Scope

3. Requirements Planning

  • PM vs. BA Roles
  • Stakeholder Analysis
  • Requirements Management Plan
  • Business Analysis Plan

4. Elicitation

  • Elicitation and Analysis
  • Elicitation Techniques
  • Selecting the Appropriate Elicitation Technique

5. Requirements Analysis and Documentation

  • Applying the BAP to Analysis
  • Modeling Techniques
  • Validation and Verification
  • Requirements Documentation Templates
  • Purpose of Modeling
  • Textual and Graphical Requirements
  • Documenting Requirements in Agile
  • Traceability

6. Requirements Lifecycle Management

  • Communicating Requirements Between Projects
  • Signoff
  • Changes to Requirements in Agile vs. Waterfall
  • Managing Projects for Value
  • Applying the BAP

7. Solution Assessment and Validation

  • Transition Requirements
  • Solution Validation
  • Close Out

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