How to Get Business Requirements with Business Events and Problem Analysis

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 based on the definition and analysis of business events and business problems that need solving.

Outline

  • Problem Statements as a Source of Requirements
  • Defining Business Problems
  • Problem/Symptom Reduction
  • Writing Problem Statements
  • Getting Problem Statements
  • From Problems to Requirements
  • Requirements vs. Problems Matrix
  • Current Business Information Usage
  • Business Events
  • Definitions
  • Event Naming Conventions
  • Finding Events
  • Identifying Scope
  • Determining Event Responses
  • Response Naming Conventions
  • Documenting Events and Responses


Objectives
  • Develop requirements based on business events and responses
  • Extract Requirements from Business Data Usage
  • Identify the pros and cons of prototyping for requirements
  • Write clear, easy-to-understand problem statements
  • Relate Problems and Symptoms
  • Create business requirements from problem statements

 

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.