Best Practices For Effective Requirements Gathering
This course will teach you tools and techniques to improve your requirements gathering skills.
What you'll learn
Taking a deeper, richer examination at developing requirements is key to further refine and improve the quality of your requirement outcomes and deliver more value to your customers.
In this course, Best Practices for Effective Requirements Gathering, you will learn how to enhance your business analysis skills, approaches, and techniques to advance your essential requirement gathering capabilities and practices.
First, you will delve into a holistic view of requirements, exploring just how your role of gathering, documenting, prioritizing, and communication requirements can make or break a project or even a company. Then, you will discover how the context type of a requirement can influence your approach to success.
Next, you will explore the secret to developing quality requirements through nurturing and cultivating relationships with your colleagues.
Finally, you will learn how business analysts can advance your career regarding requirements activities normally focused on an individual system and take the next step in professional growth with requirements analysis at the business unit level or across an enterprise. When you are finished with this course, you will have the necessary skills and knowledge of how to deliver a higher quality of requirement outcomes in order to add more value for your customers.
Table of contents
- Preface and Course Overview 6m
- The Value of Requirements Module Overview 1m
- The Essential Role of the Business Analyst 3m
- Tools, Skills, and "Must Haves" 2m
- What's a Requirement? 3m
- The Uncertainty of Business Requirements 5m
- How to Efficiently Gather Requirements 3m
- Requirements Development Using Lean 7m
- Apply the “Right” Level of Effort 4m
- In Search of the Perfect Requirement 3m
- Point of View and Module Summary 3m
- Module Overview 2m
- Consider the Viewpoints of Others 4m
- Interacting with Stakeholders 4m
- Identifying and Classifying Stakeholders 3m
- Effective Collaboration 3m
- Practical Collaboration Tips 3m
- Required Interpersonal and Communication Skills 8m
- Key Leadership Skills 3m
- Point of View and Module Summary 4m
- Module Overview 4m
- Sequential and Stepped Requirements 4m
- The Triangle Dilemma 3m
- Incremental and Iterative Requirements 2m
- Spiral, RAD, and RUP Models 4m
- Adaptive (Agile) Requirements 4m
- Benefits of Requirements Gathering with Agile 6m
- Lean Requirements Gathering 6m
- Why Agile and Lean Make Users Nervous 4m
- Point of View and Module Summary 3m
- Module Overview 2m
- The Business Unit and Programs 4m
- The Power of Program Management 1m
- Designing Program Requirements 4m
- The BA’s Role at the Program Scale 3m
- Levels of Expressing User Requirements 5m
- The BA’s Role: Driving Epics to Backlogs 3m
- Analyzing the Optimal Workload Composition 5m
- Analyzing the Optimal Agile Team Composition 5m
- Point of View and Module Summary 3m