How to Get Business Requirements in Interviews and Workshops

Workshop: How to Gather, Analyze, and Define Business System Requirements

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Overview

Business requirements are the foundation upon which systems are constructed. They are the key connection points between the business and system developers, who often think and speak differently. Capturing business requirements that reflect how the business wants to operate is a critical activity. This course focuses on ways of capturing text-based requirements in a variety of interviewing and workshop situations.

Outline

  • Ten Critical Requirements Questions
  • Identifying Stakeholders
  • User Bill of Rights and Responsibilities
  • Vision Statements
  • Interviewing
  • Characteristics of a Good Interviewer
  • Interview Steps
  • Interview Types
  • Interview options
  • Interviewing by Email
  • Survey (Delphi) Technique
  • Observing
  • Analysis by Walking Around
  • Workshop Sessions
  • Brainstorming
  • Focus Groups
  • User Groups
  • Time Compressed


Objectives
  • Identify stakeholders
  • Manage Questions and Open Items Lists
  • Evaluate a management vision statement
  • Prepare, perform and follow up problem and requirements interviews
  • Develop and process surveys
  • Describe how to use the six types of requirements gathering workshop sessions

 

Our vision of a virtual workshop is web-based training that is highly interactive. We absolutely avoid the death by page-turning and the passive learning approach that is highly prevalent in most web-based training.

3.5 hours

Target Audience

Business Analysts
Subject Matter Experts
System Analysts
User Liaison Personnel
Anyone involved in defining or deciphering business system requirements.