Mastering the Requirements Process (Workshop)
6-8 October 2020 (9-17h CEST)
Location: Live Online Event (@YOUR DIGITAL WORKPLACE)
Presented in English by Suzanne and James Robertson
Price: 2100 EUR (excl. 21% VAT)
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Learning Objectives
Everything you always wanted to know about requirements, but were afraid to ask (+ check out this 3-minute video introduction)
During this workshop, Suzanne and James Robertson will answer these and many other questions:
- How do you determine the real needs of your client ?
- How do you uncover the essence of the business ?
- Which elicitation techniques exist to uncover the real requirements ?
- How do you write agile stories that are more effective and accurate ?
- What is the role of the business analyst in agile projects ?
- How do you write requirements that are complete, traceable, and testable requirements ?
- How do you use a story map for more controlled development ?
- Why do you need (and how to write) both functional and non-functional requirements ?
- How do you precisely define the scope of the project ?
- How do you discover all the stakeholders and keep them involved ?
- How do you use prototypes and sketches to discover hidden needs ?
- How do you get the requirements quickly, and incrementally ?
- What are the most state-of-the-art requirements techniques ?
- How do you discover the right requirements and stories ?
- How to apply what you learned in your organisation ?
This intensive three-day workshop is entirely focused on discovering the right requirements
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This workshop is entirely focused on discovering the right requirements. Requirements are the most crucial part of systems development, and yet the most misunderstood part of it. Requirements must be correct if the rest of the development effort is to succeed. This workshop presents a complete process for eliciting the real requirements, testing them for correctness, and recording them clearly, comprehensibly and unambiguously.
Software development today is more complex and demanding than ever; and there are fewer resources to meet those demands. Getting the software right - the first time - is the most effective way to succeed under these circumstances. Today's requirements process is incremental with quick cycle times. It uses prototypes and scenarios, and it ensures that your developers know precisely what you - and your customer - mean when you write a fit criterion: a concise test case for the requirement.
This workshop shows you how to precisely define the scope of the business problem, to discover and involve the appropriate stakeholders, to use techniques such as apprenticing and use case workshops to learn what the users really need, to write testable requirements, and to phase the requirements to allow incremental delivery of the product.
This workshop is aimed at everyone who wants to deliver the right systems
Yes, if you want to be involved in delivering the right systems: the ones that get used because they work and solve the user's problem - and who doesn't want this? - then this workshop is for you. Your title is probably business analyst, systems analyst, product owner, project leader or manager, requirements engineer, consultant, product or program manager or similar. Team members on agile projects benefit from understanding how requirements are done in agile projects.
Users, software customers and business stakeholders have found that this course equips them to participate more effectively in the requirements process, and so ensure that the end solution matches what they really need.
Full Programme
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This programme is spread over 3 days, from 9h00 till 17h00. There is a morning coffee/tea break, a lunch break, and an afternoon coffee/tea break. Our workshop leaders will answer your questions and talk about your specific business analysis, requirements and/or innovation challenges and problems that you have, after the workshop, from 17h00 till 17h30 (appropriately called the "afterwords").
Project Blastoff
This builds a foundation for the requirements project by establishing its Scope-Stakeholder-Goals. This gives you the precise scope of the business area to be studied; a testable goal for the project; and using stakeholder maps, you can identify all the sources of requirements. Additionally, the blastoff ensures the project is viable and worthwhile.
Trawling for Requirements
At the core of any requirements process is the ability to get people to tell you what they really need, rather than their perceived solution, or what they think you might be able to deliver. We show you how to use apprenticing, use case workshops, interviewing, brainstorming, mind maps and other techniques to discover exactly what the customers need - and want.
This section introduces the brown cow model that gives the business analyst different ways of thinking about the problem, and allows the real problem to emerge. We also look at innovation - fresh thinking about the problem - and how it is a necessary component of any requirements process.
Functional Requirements
Functional requirements are those things the product must do. You discover them by understanding the work the user does, and determining what part of that work the automated product can best do. The resulting interaction between user and product is usually modeled with scenarios, and from these, you can readily derive the functional requirements.
Non-functional Requirements
Non-functional requirements are properties the product must have, such as the desired look and feel, usability, performance, cultural aspects and so on. This section discusses the types of non-functional requirements, and shows you how to use the template, and other methods, to find the all-important qualitative requirements for your product.
Managing Your Requirements: prepare and discuss your action plan on how you will use these techniques in your day-to-day business analysis and requirements work
Requirements are the lynchpin of any development effort, and so have to be written correctly and managed effectively. This section demonstrates the use of a template to help you write requirements. It looks at requirements management issues like traceability, prioritization and conflicting requirements. We also look at tools to help manage requirements specifications.
Speakers
Suzanne Robertson is a principal and founder of the Atlantic Systems Guild. Suzanne is co-author of "Mastering the Requirements Process" (Addison-Wesley Edition 3, 2012), a guide for practitioners on finding requirements and writing them so that all stakeholders can understand them. Her other requirements book, "Requirements-Led Project Management" (Addison-Wesley 2005) addresses how to use requirements as input to planning and management. Current work includes research and consulting on the management, sociological and innovative aspects of requirements. The product of this research is Volere, a requirements process, template and techniques for assessing requirements quality, and for specifying requirements.
Suzanne works with organisations to apply innovative techniques and fresh thinking in all of their systems development activities. She is author of many papers on systems engineering. Some of these papers are on her web site www.systemsguild.com and www.volere.co.uk. She also speaks at numerous conferences and universities. She is a member of IEEE and BCS and on the board of the British Computer Society's Requirements Groups. She was the founding editor of the Requirements Column in IEEE Software. Other interests include a passion for the opera, cooking, skiing and finding out about curious things.
James and Suzanne Robertson are principals and co-founders of The Atlantic Systems Guild.
James Robertson is a consultant, teacher, author, project leader whose area of concern is the requirements for products, and the contribution that good requirements make to successful projects. His work in the area of business analysis and requirements gathering is valued by clients around the world.
He is the co-author of the best-selling book "Mastering the Requirements Process, Third Edition" (Pearson, 2012, ISBN: 9780321815743). This book provides guidance on finding requirements and writing them so that all the stakeholders can understand them. He also co-founded the Volere approach to requirements engineering. His most recent book is "Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior", written with fellow principals of The Atlantic Systems Guild, a London and New York-based think tank known for its research into new systems engineering techniques.
James Robertson has worked on almost every type of information system. His experience has led him to write numerous seminars and papers that are well respected as sources of new software development ideas.
As well as teaching his seminars and workshops, he now advises companies on how to adapt modern software development techniques to fit specific projects, and how to effectively transfer the new technologies to the software developers within the organisation. He has formed a solid partnership with his wife Suzanne to consult on numerous large-scale projects in Europe and the United States.
James and Suzanne Robertson are principals and co-founders of The Atlantic Systems Guild.
The Atlantic Systems Guild Limited is endorsed as an education provider by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA).
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