How to Manage Changing Requirements

Managing requirements change has been a major challenge even for the best-run projects. Keeping track of how the changing business environment impacts ongoing projects and production applications can be a nightmare without proper tools and techniques. 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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