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Requirements Eliciting

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Course Overview:

In this highly interactive 2-day course, you will learn how to enhance and refine your elicitation skills. Industry best practices are explained and then augmented with professional tips and methods.Working in small groups, you will practice new techniques and discuss strategies that your organization should be using to better define stakeholder needs. A case study driven workshop comprises more than half the course and provides a real-world example, templates, and job aids to reference once you are back on the job.

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Audience profile
This course is a must-have for the Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, Systems Analyst, Requirements Engineer, or anyone who must perform or understand business analysis on their projects. The Business Sponsor and the Project Manager who are actively involved with specifying requirements for their project will also benefit from this workshop.

At course completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:

Apply best practices to resolve common problems encountered in requirements elicitation
Establish and communicate the scope for eliciting requirements on a project
Identify, analyze and manage stakeholders during the elicitation process
Determine the appropriate mix of elicitation techniques to utilize on a project
Plan and conduct an interview to elicit requirements
Plan and conduct several different forms of requirements elicitation

Course Outline

Day 1

Unit 1: Introduction

Unit 2: Fundamentals of Requirements
Elicitation

Challenges with requirements elicitation and requirements
Best practices to overcome elicitation and requirement challenges
Common elicitation techniques
Requirement types

Unit 3: Understanding the Objectives and Product Scope

Strategy Analysis; the start to defining the business need
The importance of documenting business objectives and product scope before elicitation
Context diagramming to define product scope

Unit 4: Identifying and Analyzing Stakeholders

The importance of stakeholder analysis and management
Factors to consider when determining which elicitation techniques to utilize

Unit 5: Interviews, Focus Groups, & Surveys

The interviewing technique and when best used
Benefits and weaknesses of interviews
Questions types
Conducting a good interview
Benefits and weaknesses of Focus Groups and Surveys
Best practice tips for focus groups and surveys

Day 2

Unit 6: Brainstorming and Workshops

The benefits and weaknesses of workshops
Types of workshops
Facilitate a workshop
Decision rules
Practicing facilitation skills
Benefits and weaknesses of brainstorming

Unit 7: Process Modeling using Activity Diagrams

Purose and benefits of process modeling
Using process modeling to elicit
The UML^® equivalent – Activity Diagrams
Observation as an elicitation technique

Unit 8: Prototyping

Benefits and weaknesses of prototyping
Key prototyping terms
Three forms of prototyping; storyboard, wireframes, and HTML (functional prototypes)

Unit 9: Document Analysis, Reverse Engineering, and Interface Analysis

The role of document analysis in requirements elicitation
Benefits and weaknesses of document analysis
Reverse engineering to uncover unknown information about an existing solution
The value of Interface Analysis

Unit 10: Course Wrap-up

What will you take away?
How to obtain additional information

Course Title

Requirements Eliciting

Course Number

BA26

Course Outline

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Duration

2 days

Price

$1195.00

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Requirements Eliciting