Requirement Fundamentals for the Business Analyst (2-Day Seminar)
Course Category: Business Analyst Training Course Duration: 2 days Course Credit: 14 PDU, 14 CDU Prerequisites: None
This is our newest offering. The content is based on our most popular course, the Requirement Definition 2-Day Seminar, but is geared specifically to Business Analysts (BA) and the knowledge they must have to effectively define scope and requirements for a project. Through a combination of lecture and exercises, the Business Analyst will learn the steps, tools and techniques to elicit, write and manage requirements.
Course Objective
Understand the Business Analyst’s roles and responsibilities during the Requirements Phase
Learn how to build the foundation for requirements: defining the Vision and Scope
Discover methods to elicit, document, analyze, validate and baseline requirements
Develop skills to enable you to:
Establish boundaries for the scope of your product
Collect the information needed to write good requirements by developing a vision and scope document
Get buy-in from all stakeholders on the scope before you begin the requirement definition phase
Define business requirements using various elicitation, modeling and analytical techniques
Write good business requirements by applying the rules that constitute good requirements
Capture attributes to enhance the understanding of the requirements and enable you to manage the requirements throughout the course of the project
Conduct inspections to identify requirement defects so that they can be fixed
Validate and baseline your requirements
Course Outline
Part 1 – Introduction
What is a Business Analyst?
The role of the Business Analyst in Requirements
Responsibilities of the Business Analyst
Part 2 – Vision and Scope – Establishing the Foundation
What are Vision and Scope
Developing the components of Vision and Scope
Establish the baseline: conducting a review and risk assessment
Part 3 – Eliciting Requirements
Communications – ask the right question and provide the correct response
Working as a Group
Elicitation Techniques
Interviewing
Workshop
Prototyping
Models
Defining Requirements
Capturing Requirement Attributes
Documenting and Validating Requirements
Intended Audience
This training is critical for those responsible for capturing and documenting requirements. Representatives of all the product’s stakeholders will be involved in developing, reviewing, and approving requirements, and this training will benefit them and your requirement effort.
Business Analysts (BA)
Requirement Engineers (RE)
Business System Analyst (BSA)
Subject Matter Experts (SME)
Program and Project Managers (PM)
Developers
Testers
Independent Verification and Validation (IVV) Team
This course is not currently offered as a public course, but if you are interested in having it publicly offered in your area, please let us know. Please view our public course schedule for a list of upcoming public courses.