How to Manage Changing Requirements

Managing your changing requirements is a major challenge even for the best-run projects. Keeping track of how the changing business environment impacts ongoing projects and production applications without proper tools and techniques can cause you to lose sleep. The concept of requirements management is not new but with an increase in the use of off-shore developers and off-the-shelf solutions, it has become much more significant for information technology projects.

Requirements management is one of the major components of Knowledge Area 4: Requirements Management and Communication in the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge^® (BABOK^®). This virtual workshop presents techniques targeting how to most effectively manage and trace business, stakeholder, solution, and transition requirements.

1. Requirements Management and Communication

What’s In a Requirement and Who Cares?

Key concepts in this course

Keys to a Successful Course

Exercise: Your objectives for this course

2. Business Analysis Revealed

The International Institute of Business Analysis

Business Analysis in Your World

Plan-Driven versus Change-Driven Approaches

Introduction to the IIBA® Body of Knowledge

BABOK® Structure: Knowledge Areas, Tasks, & Techniques

Knowledge Areas of the BABOK®

Requirements Defined

Requirements a la BABOK®

Types of Requirements

The Business of Requirements

Stakeholder Perspectives

Defining the Solution

Getting from the AS-IS to the TO-BE

Analysis of Business Systems Analysis

KA Requirements Management and Communication

Knowledge Areas of the BABOK®

Requirements Management and Communication

What You Do in RM&C

3. Managing Requirements throughout the Life Cycle

Determining the Need for Traceability

Preserve a Team’s Collective Memory

Benefits of Requirements Traceability

Benefits of Requirements Traceability

Challenges of Requirements Traceability

Requirements Lineage

Backward Traceability (Derivation)

Forward Traceability (Allocation)

Trace a Requirement to its Source

Allocate Requirements to Design Artifacts

Allocate Requirements to Test Cases

Requirements Attributes

Defining Attributes of Requirements

Requirements Metrics

States in the Life of a Requirement

RequirementsTraceability Matrixes

Traceability Matrix

4. Manage Your Scope or It Will Manage You

What's Scope Got to Do with It

Discussion: What Is Scope?

What Does Scope Define?

Solution Scope

Project Scope

Scope Management and Change Control

Requirements Review and Approval

Example of a RACI Matrix

Who Approves Your Requirements?

Quality Assurance Activities

Requirements Issues and Conflicts

Exercise: Requirements Review

Managing Changing Requirements

Discussion: Change Control in the Real World

Configuration Management Defined

Configuration Management a la Wikipedia®

Discussion: Baselining Requirements

Change Request Process

Change Control Log

Change Control Log

Change Request

Capturing Change Requests

Hurdles to Informational Listening

Exercise: Creating Change Requests

Discussion: Impact Assessment

Impact Assessment

• Differentiate between plan-driven and change-driven project approaches
• Discuss key concepts in the requirements management and communication knowledge area
• Classify the 5 types of requirements described in the BABOK^®
• Compare business analysis in your world with industry "standards"
• Defend the need for requirements management and communication
• Argue the benefits and challenges of requirements traceability
• Show requirements lineage in terms of forward, backward, and parent-child traceability
• Create the requirements traceability approach for a project
• Choose the appropriate attributes needed for requirements traceability
• Develop a requirements traceability matrix
• Distinguish between project, problem, and solution scope
• Develop and maintain a requirements management plan
• Apply requirements management principles based on scope, risk, and cost management criteria
• Baseline the business requirements to set the stage for managing change

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