BA04 – Eliciting and Writing Effective Requirements
With elicitation serving as a major component of the requirements process, it is imperative that business analysts maintain high competency levels in elicitation practices and technique use to help organizations overcome the requirements related challenges faced on projects. Regardless whether you are a practitioner just starting off your career in business analysis or whether you have been performing the role for some years, this course will provide insight into the latest thoughts on elicitation and writing effective requirements and present a number of current techniques that are being applied on projects across industries today.
This course may earn a Credly Badge.
- Price: $2195.00
- Duration: 3 Days
- Delivery Methods: Virtual
- DIR Discount: 55.0%
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Course Outline
1 – Review of Foundational Concepts
2 – Understanding Requirements
3 – Discovering Stakeholders
4 – Preparing for Requirements Elicitation
5 – Conduct Requirements Elicitation
6 – Write Effective Requirements
7 – Confirm and Communicate Elicitation Requirements
8 – Evaluate the Solution
9 – Wrap up and Next Steps
Actual course outline may vary depending on offering center. Contact your sales representative for more information.
Learning Objectives
Understand the role of the business analyst and core competencies for performing successfully
- Discuss the criticality of business analysis and requirements for successful project outcomes
- Understand the main professional associations and standards supporting business analysts in the industry
- Discuss the common problems with requirements and explore approaches to address these issues
- Obtain a clear understanding of the various requirements types and the significance for eliciting each type
- Demonstrate your ability to identify stakeholders
- Explore various methods for understanding and analyzing stakeholders
- Discuss and apply good planning practices to requirements elicitation efforts
- Obtain knowledge and understanding of over 15 current and commonly applied elicitation techniques
- Understand how to progress from elicitation to analysis to documentation
- Write well-formed and validated requirements
- Gain understanding of the best practices for writing quality requirements
- Learn the technical writing techniques that apply directly to writing requirements documents
- Discuss writing pitfalls, risks that impact requirements, and how to address them
- Learn best practices for communicating and collaborating with stakeholders, sharing the results of elicitation and the resulting documentation
- Learn approaches for validating requirements
- Understand the difference between validating requirements and validating the solution
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