Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - Reston, VA

Organizations need to establish requirements, regardless of the business, method, or tool. This course covers the creation and management of requirements and how they fit within the context of the broader software development lifecycle (SDLC). The course has proven to be an ideal way for organizations to begin to use or reinforce best practices for the development and management of requirements for software applications and business processes.

This course focuses on the writing of good requirements. Participants receive a practical understanding of requirements writing through the use of real-life business scenarios and related exercises.

Business analysts, consultants, project managers, and anyone who is responsible for gathering and writing business/user requirements

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One day (7 hours)

8 Continuing Development Units (CDU)

• Requirements Overview
  • Development phases
  • Current development methodologies
  • Role of requirements throughout the lifecycle
• Business Use Case Overview
  • What are business use cases?
  • Benefits of business use cases
• Users/Stakeholders
  • Requirements elicitation/requirements management
  • Who are the stakeholders?
• User Requirements Overview
  • Developing user requirements
  • Forms of user requirements
  • Developing and reviewing capability flow diagrams
• Use Case Development
  • Keys to developing effective use cases
  • Components of a simple use case
  • How do I get started?
  • Alternates and exceptions
  • Business requirements/non-functional requirements
  • Use case review process
  • Developing technical requirements from use cases
• Requirements and Testing
  • Purpose of testing
  • Developing user test plans from use cases