Target Audience: Senior Management, Project Managers, Clients, Business and Technical Analysts, System and Design Engineers, Developers, Testers, SQA Personnel

Description:
Not respecting the discipline of Requirements Engineering can be a costly mistake.  Rushing through the first phase, Requirements Development, leads to increased defects, re-work, and poor product quality.  Not having processes in place during the second phase, Requirements Management, can lead to uncontrolled scope creep and the inevitable cost-overruns.

This overview is designed to help you understand the various types of requirements, how to document them and how to prioritize them. It examines what tasks the business analyst should be doing and what techniques analysts should use to improve their results. Finally, it reviews the management goals, activities and measurements which must be coupled with analysis and documentation techniques to fully realize best practice results. 

What you will learn:
Students will:

• Understand that poor requirements are the source of most software development project failures
• Realize the risks inherent in a project with poorly defined and managed requirements
• Learn the value of taking enough time to formally elicit requirements from customers
• Examine the different types of models that can be used to validate requirements
• Come to understand the importance of using a formal change-control procedure

Course Outline:
Why do we need Better Requirements?

• Historical data on requirements quality
• Impact to business
• Self-Assessment Test

Types of Requirements & the Project Time Line

• Types of requirements

• Typical project life cycle

• Expanded requirements phase time line

• Requirements in the CMMI

 Requirements Development

• Elicitation

• Analysis

• Specification (a.k.a.: Documentation)

• Verification

Requirements Management

• Requirements management overview

• Change control

• Automated tools

• Exercise:  Match Requirements Area to Techniques

Summary

Prerequisites:  Familiarity with Software Development