The ability to quickly and effectively capture, validate and control client requirements is crucial to understanding and responding to client needs. Done correctly, it enhances communication and strengthens the relationship between project teams and their business partners.

Incomplete, inconsistent and incomprehensible requirements can lead to missed deadlines, unhappy clients and even project failure. Yet without the intuitive tools and effective processes in place, the collection of requirements is all too often left to chance.
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This three-day workshop will provide participants with easy-to-use tools and adaptable processes to successfully define and manage business requirements on any project. They’ll learn a quick and efficient approach to documenting and verifying requirements, and they’ll benefit from a more agile approach to business analysis — one that emphasizes speed, quality and effective client communications.

PROGRAM GOALS

• Gather critical information about 10 key requirement subject areas
• Use a Context Diagram to set the scope  of analysis
• 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
• 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