How to Elicit Business System Requirements
Series: How to Elicit (Gather), Write, and Analyze Business Requirements
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| Web-based | Jun 9 - 10, 2009 | Internet | $495 | Register |
| Web-based | Aug 10 - 11, 2009 | Internet | $495 | Register |
| Web-based | Oct 13 - 14, 2009 | Internet | $495 | Register |
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It is very early in your project. How will you, the business system analyst, and the business subject matter experts (SMEs) determine what the system should do when you are finished? There are many people involved, each with different expectations and needs. How can you deal with these difficulties, gather reasonable requirements quickly, and not waste the effort?
This training workshop offers techniques for determining how to gather, capture, elicit (whatever you want to call it) business requirements from subject matter experts. Whether you are preparing for a 1-on-1 interview or creating an email survey to get requirements, you will find a useful, proven set of techniques and tricks for identifying problems and gathering requirements, organizing the answers and checking the completeness of the results. You will learn how to identify the events and responses that focuses on the business needs or goals for the system. Business requirement statements ultimately define what the solution has to do. Capturing critical business requirements is the primary goal of during early project phases.
- Manage questions and open items lists
- Identify the value of good requirements
- Prepare, perform and follow up requirements interviews
- Develop and process surveys
- Describe how “analysis by walking around” creates requirements
- Use 10 critical requirements questions to guide the requirements capture process
- Discuss the difficulties in writing quality, "-ability" requirements (ex: reliability)
- Evaluate a management vision statement
- Identify the pros and cons of prototyping for requirements
- Define business requirements that solve business problems
- Develop requirements based on business events and responses
- Create business event/response tables
Our virtual workshops are highly interactive, web-based training experiences. We absolutely avoid the death by page-turning and the passive learning approach that is highly prevalent in most web-based training.
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