Inadequate definition and management of requirements is second only to Project Management "malpractice" as a reason for project failure. A competent and professional Business Analyst is a Project Manager's right hand. However, the ability to quickly and effectively capture, validate, and control client requirements doesn't just apply to Analysts. These are essential survival skills for every IT Project Manager who works in today's environment of lean staffing and crunch mode projects.

This three-day workshop will provide participants with easy-to-use tools and up-to-date techniques to successfully define and manage business requirements on any project. It teaches a quick and efficient approach to documenting and verifying requirements. Participants will benefit from a more agile approach to business analysis--one that emphasizes speed, high quality, and effective Client communications.

The workshop is an intensive, fast-paced, and entertaining tour-de-force of the latest techniques for defining, documenting, analyzing, and controlling business requirements. Business Requirements Management is a must have skill for every IT professional.

AT THIS WORKSHOP YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO:

• Gather critical information about 10 key requirement subject areas
• Use a Context Diagram to set the scope of analysis
• Identify and describe business-driven external and temporal events
• Specify essential processing, timing, control, and information requirements
• Establish a functional requirements baseline
• Define robust, stable and maintainable data structures
• Document client-centric processing with simple Use Case templates
• Use three different methods to prioritize business requirements
• Identify critical development and implementation risks
• Develop an early project sizing and use it to assess schedule feasibility
• Estimate development timeframes using simplified function point counting
• Identify and document the key elements of a "testable" specification.
• Implement good change management practices to minimize "scope creep"
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