Defining and Managing Business Requirements
Day 1: Utilizing requirements management processes for project success
- Defining and understanding business requirements
- Highlighting the connections between business analysis (BA) and project management (PM)
- Analyzing and understanding project failures
- Learning Lab 1: identifying project issues related to requirements
- Using a practical and proven requirements management process
- Identifying the real problem and framing the problem definition
- Identifying and analyzing stakeholders
- Learning Lab 2: developing the project charter
- Gathering requirements using interviews and survey questionnaires
- Discovering functional requirements using elicitation tools and techniques
- Involving stakeholders in identifying and prioritizing business requirements
- Discovering overlooked requirements
- Learning Lab 3: developing interview questions
Day 2: Validating and Communicating Requirements
- Validating and documenting solution requirements using various methods
- Translating requirements into functional specifications
- Using use cases to define requirements and functional specifications
- Analyzing and validating requirements using process mapping and joint application development
- Learning Lab 4: analyzing and understanding business requirements
- Learning Lab 5: refining requirements
- Learning Lab 6: comparing the original project charter with the newly discovered requirements
- Utilizing traceability tools and other techniques for requirements verification
- Implementing a requirements change management process
- Managing stakeholders’ expectations
- Learning Lab 7: managing stakeholders
Day 3: Determining the Best Solution(s)
- Developing an itemized list of deliverables
- Learning Lab 8: developing an itemized deliverable list
- Conducting a feasibility cost/benefit analysis for the solution options
- Building a strong business case using our requirements management process
- Learning Lab 9: getting and measuring the ROI
- Developing a practical requirements management methodology for your workplace
- Learning Lab 10: wrapping it all up
Schedule
Evening before course — 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Optional dinner for those arriving early
Days 1 and 2 — 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Session
Day 3 — 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Session
The University of Wisconsin–Madison, as a member of the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA), authorizes this course for 2.2 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or 22 hours, as well as 22 PDUs.
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