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Building Effective Business Requirements: How to Develop Specifications that Drive Quality Business

Course Details

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At least half of product defects and as much as 80 percent of rework on a development project can be traced back to requirement defects. In today’s environment, where every system dollar is scrutinized and squeezed, one of the greatest improvement opportunities for an IT organization is in defining the requirements correctly.

This seminar lays the foundation for sound requirements management. Participants will acquire knowledge, skills and templates to help them better organize and plan for requirements gathering, management the requirements and stakeholders and define the key skills and competencies needed by a business analyst.

Enroll in the PDC Business Analysis Certificate Program

There is no prerequisite for this course.

Who Should Attend

  • Systems, business, technical, and QA analysts or managers
  • Operations, project, IT, and development managers
  • Requirements and design engineer

Professional Development and Continuing Education Units

This seminar is worth 12 PDUs and 1.2 CEUs.

BABoK Compliance

This seminar aligns with the Requirements Planning & Management, Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Analysis & Documentation and Solution Assessment & Validation knowledge areas.

Outcomes

  • Define the business analysis activities and responsibilities
  • Build requirements management plan
  • Create business analysis artifacts
  • Define business analysis roles, skills and competencies

Seminar Outline

Importance of Requirements
  • Why requirements are missed
  • The costs of missed requirements
  • IIBA knowledge areas
  • The Role of the Business Analyst
  • Project management
  • SDLC/methodologies
Requirements Development
  • Process flow
  • Types of requirements
  • Selecting the “right” requirement level
  • The requirements process
Business Analysis Planning
  • Stakeholder identification
  • Choosing the Business Analysis approach
  • Defining roles and responsibilities
  • Defining BA activities
  • Communication planning
  • Managing BA performance
Requirements Management
  • Requirements Management Plan
  • Prioritizing Requirements
  • Requirements package components
  • Context diagrams
  • Domain and Physical models
  • Data dictionary
  • Dataflow diagrams
  • Data models
  • Entity relationship diagrams
  • Managing Requirements changes
  • Requirements Traceability
The Art of Business Analysis
  • BA Competencies
  • Communicating with stakeholders
  • Facilitated workshops

*Additional registration discounts do not apply to this seminar.

Coordinator(s)

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