MENU Eliciting & Documenting Requirements
Collaborating to Capture True Business Needs
A Two-Day Seminar - Now available in VIRTUAL format
The Business Analyst has been described as the person who bridges the divide between IT departments and the business organizations they support. For all of the tools and techniques to elicit requirements, nothing is more important than making the most of human contact between these two interdependent groups. This seminar discusses several useful approaches to gathering requirements, focusing on the facilitation of collaborative sessions and the clear translation of business needs into requirements.
What You Will Learn
- Practice new tools and techniques that will strengthen elicitation and collaboration results
- Develop a framework for improved stakeholder collaboration
- Maintain stakeholder engagement and commitment through requirements elicitation and documentation
- Identify and create use cases and user stories
- Write effective requirements
- Ensure focus on business value delivery
Seminar Outline
I. The Strategy-Focused Organization
- Background: the need to think strategically
- Linkage to the Balanced Scorecard
II. Good Requirements
- Business rationale
- Requirements classification
- Creating the road map
III. Elicitation and Collaboration
- Understanding the difference
- Stakeholder analysis
- What to elicit
IV. Techniques
- Process analysis techniques
- Interviews, focus groups, surveys
- Brainstorming
- User stories
- Use cases
- When, why and how to use the techniques
V. Writing Requirements
- Transitioning from elicitation to requirements
- Requirements tips and guidelines
Who Should Attend
You will benefit most from this learning experience if you are a (an):
- Business Analyst
- Designer/Systems Analyst
- Requirements Professional
- Business Product Owner
- Business Architect
- Project/Program Manager
- Team Leader or Team Facilitator
- Process Improvement Professional
- Development Manager
- Management Consultant
- IT Specialist