Mastering the Requirements Process I

Requirements are the most misunderstood part of systems development, and yet the most crucial. Requirements must be correct if the rest of the development effort is to succeed. This workshop presents a complete process for eliciting the real requirements, testing them for correctness, and recording them clearly, comprehensibly and unambiguously.Software development today has more demands on it than ever; and fewer resources to meet those demands. Getting the software right—the first time—is the most effective way to succeed under these circumstances. Today’s requirements process is incremental with quick cycle times. It uses prototypes and scenarios, and it ensures that your developers know precisely what you—and your customer—mean when you write a fit criterion – a concise test case for the requirement.

This workshop shows you how to precisely define the scope of the business problem, to discover and involve the appropriate stakeholders, to use techniques such as apprenticing and use case workshops to learn what the business really needs, to write testable requirements, unambiguously so the right system gets built.

You will learn how to:
- Determine your client's needs—exactly.
- Discover the real business, and how to improve it.
- Write requirements that are complete, traceable, and testable.
- Precisely define the scope of the project.
- Discover all the stakeholders—and keep them involved.
- Use up-to-date techniques such as storyboarding, prototyping and wikis.
- Get the right requirements quickly.

Is this for me? 
Yes, If you want to be involved in delivering the right systems—the ones that get used. Your title is probably business analyst, systems analyst, project leader or manager, requirements engineer, consultant, product or program manager or similar. Or if you are a user or software customer and want to ensure the requirements process delivers what you need.

IIBA
Mastering the Requirements process is a course endorsed by the IIBA as being compliant with V2.0 of the BABOK. The course is delivered by the Atlantic Systems Guild, an IIBA endorsed education provider (EEP).