Mastering the Requirements Specifications

Every successful IT project has evolved from effective requirements specifications. Conversely, over 60% of the challenged projects are shown to have inadequate requirements. The cost of recovering from a problem is over a hundred times greater at the end of the project than at the beginning. All this makes a convincing argument for taking the trouble to produce effective requirements.

This workshop provides you with the tools and techniques for creating an effective requirements specification quickly, accurately and completely.

At the end of this 2-day workshop, participants will be able to analyze a new or existing system project, and develop a requirements specification. The latest analysis techniques are combined with effective proven modeling methods. The workshop focuses on developing complete and accurate requirements in the shortest possible time. The material is based on practical and effective methods that have evolved from many years of experience with software projects.

The workshop deals with structured requirements gathering techniques that are the basis for all the current methods and tools. This workshop will complement and support product and tool-specific training, and can be used with all known methodologies. The workshop itself is methodology neutral.

The workshop is heavily "hands on". There are no automated tools: All work is simulation of real situations and done in teams relying heavily on group interaction.

The workshop deals with the analysis phase of a project and shows how to create the right environment for analysis, how to effectively document the findings, and how to ask all the right questions.

This workshop is extremely beneficial for anyone involved in software development, including managers (both business and IT) who may need to direct a requirements analysis effort, office personnel who may need to contribute business expertise, analysts who will need to define and organize the requirements, and developers who will need to construct the system.
Workshop Objectives

Learn how to create an effective customer-development partnership. Delineate critical success factors. Discover how to set and manage customers' expectations. Identify scope boundaries and develop a high-level view of a project. Identify the structure of the application area, or system, under study. Analyze, define, and model the processes. Analyze, define, and model the data. Use rules and structure to test the results. Understand the various methods of gathering information. Create a clear, complete, and accurate requirements specification.

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Last updated on September 03, 2008

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