How to Clarify, Confirm, and Complete Business Requirements

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. Clarifying the meaning and confirming the testability of each business requirement is essential to the delivery of a business technology solution that meets, or better, exceeds the customers expectations.

Outline

  • Q&A Session
  • How to Interpret a Requirement
  • Reviewing and Challenging Requirements
  • Major Subjects of Requirements
  • Functional Requirements
  • Identifying Processes and Data Requirements
  • Performance Requirements
  • Identifying Performance Requirements
  • Business Rules and Constraints
  • Identifying Rules and Constraining Requirements
  • Using Requirements Subjects to Test Your Understanding of a Requirement
  • Using a Template to Decompose a Set of Requirements
  • Applying: Decomposing and Posting Your Requirements for Review


Objectives
  • Find missing requirements using the components of a business information system
  • Recognize the impact that ambiguity has for requirements
  • Translate business needs into well-structured business requirement statements
  • Confirm that your requirements are in scope for your project
  • Apply 3 simple rules to create component-focused business requirements
  • Evaluate the completeness of your written business requirements

 

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