Credits: 14 PDUs / 2 Days

Course Level:
Basic/Intermediate

Prerequisites:
No prerequisites – This course suitable for both novices and experienced people who need to manage and communicate requirements for projects. It is recommended that participants complete the BA01 – Business Analysis Essentials course prior to enrolling or have equivalent experience.

Course Abstract:
A planned requirements approach is essential to a successful project. Your role as the Business Analyst in any project is to help form and coach a cross-functional team, facilitate continuous collaboration with your client, manage and communicate changing requirements, and deliver business value to your client early and regularly throughout the project.

Course Objectives:
Learn to develop a plan that includes determining the requirements activities a Business Analyst will perform on a particular project and how you will control and manage changes to the deliverables.  Develop a high level test plan to verify and validate your user requirements and achieve quality performance.

Included:
Student Guide
Templates

Intended Audience:

Executives, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Business and IT stakeholders working with analysts, Systems Analysts and programmers interested in expanding their role into the business area.

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of the course, participants shall be able to:

• Plan, manage and communicate requirements for projects
• Perform the various elicitation techniques used in gathering and documenting requirements.
• Produce relevant artifacts needed for documenting requirements.
• Minimize uncertainty and risk by applying principles learned in the course
• Ensure your project delivers required functionality and adds value to the business
• Translate business requirements into appropriate technical specifications.
• Optimize your team’s responsiveness to change

Course Outline:

Section 1: Introduction

• Requirements  and types of requirements
• Requirements in the product life cycle
• Project roles and requirements
• The role of the Business Analyst (BA)

Section 2: Managing Solution Scope and Requirements

• Requirements management plan
• Solution scope
• Conflict and issue management
• General techniques used

Section 3: Knowing your audience and their needs

• Specific needs of business stakeholders and management
• Specific needs of Subject Matter Experts (SME)
• Specific needs of the technical team (developers, testers, etc.)

Section 4: Managing Requirements Effectively

• Attributes of effective requirements
• Audiences of the requirements and the audiences’ needs
• Business vs. technical point of view
• Need for formality and level of detail required

Section 5: Managing Requirements Traceability

• Recording the dependencies and relationships for each of the requirements
• Impact analysis
• Using a configuration management system
• Testing requirements
• General techniques used

Section 6: Prepare the Requirements Package

• Work product and deliverables
• Attributes of a complete requirements package
• General techniques used

Section 7: Maintain Requirements for Re-use

• Maintaining organizational process assets
• Ongoing requirements
• Satisfied requirements

Section 8: Communicating Requirements Effectively

• The 7 Cs
• Bulleted and numbered lists
• Tables and graphs
• Models and other graphics
• Using white space and fonts
• Chunking requirements information and the use of headings

Section 9: Additional Information

• Useful books and links on managing and communicating requirements

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BA06-Managing and Communicating Requirements for Projects – 2 days