"There's no sense being exact about something if you don't even know what you're talking about. " -- John von Neumann

Requirements Series  WEBinar

Requirements 4-Part Series

Abstract: This WEBinar series shows a 6-step process for gathering, analyzing, and checking business requirements in a more defect free way.  

The series includes an overview of the process, followed by detail in each of the 6 parts of the process.

How often have you heard, "I'll know it when I see it"? 

These WEBinars concentrate on a process model of requirements gathering. Many of us are tired of implementing wants rather than needs, working with opinions rather than facts, and proposed solutions rather than real issues identified through problem identification.

Statistically, the distribution of requirements defects is as follows: 10% extra requirements, 30% incorrect requirements, and 60% missing requirements. This WEBinar will introduce a process to eliminate these defects.  

Requirements defects affect projects of every type: manufacturing, building, health care, customer service, and software.  In software alone, over half of defects found result from poor requirements.

The focus is a six (6) step requirements gathering process useful for end users, business analysts, and developers. The model's structure automatically assures mission-based, needs-based requirements that are not solutions-driven and so thorough as to not miss any requirements. Background for the structure, and explanation of the steps will be included. 

Here is a chart that explains the phase, deliverable and tools of each of the six steps. Join us!  

Part 1: A High Quality Requirements Model

• Explains prerequisites and challenges associated with traditional requirements gathering
• Provides an overview of the 6 step model

Part 2: Identifying Business Needs, In-Depth

• Part 1 of the model
• Identifies business needs
• Delivers user statement of requirements
• Intensively involves users of the product
• Includes 10 tools, including Mission Discovery, Existing Process Discovery, User Process Charts, Map Translation, Problem Statement, Ambiguity Tests, and more...

Part 3: Analyzing Business Requirements and Constraints

• Parts 2 and 3 of the model
• Analyzes business requirements
• Delivers preliminary statement of requirements
• Involves business analysts, users, and developers
• Confirms structural attributes of software 
  (quality-"ilities": functionality, usability, reliability, supportability, etc.) with the user 
• Places the "User Concerns List" here in the process to capture user concerns earlier rather than later
• Applies a unique RPIPR model for interviewing…
  First build trust…then, gather requirements: Rapport, Process, Interview, Process, Rapport 
• Allows the BA to understand true needs to avoid biasing needs with technology 

Part 4: Resolving Requirements Conflicts and Inaccuracies

• Parts 4, 5, and 6 of the model
• Resolves conflicts, verifies, and validates requirements
• Delivers final statement of requirements
• Understand the balance between the costs and the benefits of the new requirement 
• Resolve technical conflicts between what users want and what is economically achievable with technology 
• Use risk assessment to properly balance benefits with hidden costs and risks 
• Balance structural software characteristics to minimize software failure 
• Resolve emotional conflicts between different groups that sometimes arise
• Verify requirements with various models and measurements to prove requirements are correct 
• Minimize high cost of erroneous requirements 
• Prevent propagation of incorrectly installed (and otherwise correct) requirements

This WEBinar series describes how to prevent requirements defects and how to gather those requirements more accurately.  Complete information on the full course on requirements can be found here. 

Conducted  Wed. March 7 - June 6, 2012

Recertification credits: 1.25 PDU (PMI)

Conducted:
Wed. March 7, 2012
Wed. April 4, 2012
Wed. May 2, 2012
Wed. June 6, 2012

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Order all parts in the series for $84.95, a $14.85 discount! 

All WEBinars now 1 hour and 15 minutes in length.

To order some segments as you choose: 

   $24.95 each

   1. A High Quality Reqts. Model                   To order, click here.
   2. Identify Bus. needs, In Depth                 To order, click here.
   3. Anal. Bus. Reqts.  and Constraints      To order, click here.
   4. Resolving Reqts Conflicts                      To order, click here.

Order all 4 below for $84.95, a $14.85 discount!

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Parts 1 thru 4, QA

$84.95 USD

Key Objectives

Note: For more detail on the key learning objectives of the full course go to Requirements Gathering.