Summary

This hands-on learn-by-doing workshop will work through the organization’s real-life project example to put in place a requirements framework to be populated with business and functional requirements. Two facilitators will be assigned to work with customer personnel over the 2- to 3-day period of the workshop. Customer personnel may be divided into groups to address particular areas of the subject. Presentations, documents, templates etc. generated during the workshop will be handed over to the customer.

This coaching program provides an understanding of how to gather, process, and track evolving stakeholder needs and requirements throughout the lifecycle of the project so as to establish a requirements baseline that serves as the basis for defining the needed work products. This workshop will examine a real-life planned project, and put together a draft charter and business goals/requirements (epic business case), key functional requirements (features), non-functional requirements, and a delivery roadmap.

The focus of the workshop will be to put in place the framework that the project team (e.g. Product Manager, Solution Architect, Delivery Manager, etc.) further elicit and document requirements, ahead of a larger bottom-up effort such as a big-room planning session.

Learning Goals

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This workshop not only provides a framework for the organization’s project’s requirements, but the facilitators will help build the initial set of requirements of business goals/requirements (or epic business case) and key functional requirements (features), non-functional requirements as well as a delivery roadmap.

Topics Covered

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1. Introduction
a. Definition and importance of requirements gathering
b. Requirements gathering processes
i. BDUF (Big Design Up Front with managed updates)
ii. Agile (incremental & iterative)
c. The challenges & risks of requirements gathering

2. Best practices for requirements gathering
a. Identify and assess stakeholders
b. Appoint & assign requirement team
c. Gather and document workflows and use cases
d. Document assumptions and constraints
e. Elicitation techniques

3. Available tools for requirements gathering
a. BDUF
i. Business requirements templates
ii. Functional requirements templates
iii. Traceability matrix templates
iv. Requirements validation templates
v. Applications used e.g. HP-ALM
vi. Change management process

b. Agile (incremental & iterative)
i. Work items hierarchy
ii. Epics, features & user stories
iii. Epic hypothesis, Lean Business Case, Feature definition & prioritization
iv. Applications used – ADO, Jira
v. Incremental & iterative planning: PI planning, backlog management & sprint ceremonies.

4. Practical Exercises

What Attendees Get

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1. Appropriate requirements framework for the organization & plan to gather, process, and track evolving stakeholder needs and requirements

2. An initial set of requirements of:
    – Business goals/requirements (or epic business case).
    – Key functional requirements (features), non-functional requirements.
    – Delivery roadmap.

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Who will benefit?

  1. Project leadership
  2. Project team members
  3. Project managers
  4. Project sponsors
  5. Stakeholders
  6. PMO personnel
  7. Contractors/vendors
  8. Clients/customers
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Prerequisites

1. Draft project charter
2. Representatives of key stakeholder groups

Professional Development Units (PDUs) and Scrum Education Units (SEUs)

Not available for this course.

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Exam & Certification Details

Not available for this course.

What you get

Not available for this course.

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