Business Requirements for Project Success

• Traditional Classroom: 1-day
• Virtual Instructor-led: Two 3-3.5 hour sessions; Three 2-hour sessions

This intensive one-day workshop focuses on specific developing skills for discovering, analyzing, modeling, and communicating with a specific focus on systems integration projects. Techniques are relevant to any project team member with a role in eliciting, modeling, and managing requirements. Participants will apply the skills they learn through hands-on activities based on an immersive case study. Additionally, short exercises will provide participants with an opportunity to practice techniques learned.

Target Audience

This course benefits any project team member with a role in eliciting, modeling, and managing requirements.

Learning Objectives

• Describe effective requirements.
• Describe the purpose, process steps, challenges, and benefits of a range of techniques to elicit and model requirements from stakeholders.
• Elicit requirements from stakeholders using: document analysis, interface analysis, root cause analysis, interviewing, requirements workshops, and prototyping.
• Describe modeling techniques and their applicability to documenting and analyzing requirements using: context diagram, work breakdown structure, use case diagram, use case description, business process flow diagram.

Key Takeaways

Part A: Business Analysis Skills

• Techniques for discovering needs and formulating requirements
• Root cause analysis techniques: 5-whys, fishbone diagramming
• Estimating effort through work breakdown structures (WBS)
• Writing effective requirements
• Building data requirements for integration interfaces
• Defining requirements through use cases
• Template and checklists for ensuring quality

Part B: Requirements Modeling

• Modeling business processes and workflows
• Uncovering business rules through data models
• Data flow modeling
• Context modeling

Course Outline

Module 1: Writing Effective Requirements

• What Is a Requirement?
• Requirements Quality Continuum

Module 2: Interviewing

• Overview of Interviewing
• Interview Process Steps
• Challenges and Benefits

Module 3: Requirements Workshops

• Overview of Requirements Workshops
• Requirements Workshops Process Steps
• Challenges and Benefits

Module 4: Document Analysis

• Overview of Document Analysis
• Document Analysis Process Steps
• Challenges and Benefits

Module 5: Interface Analysis

• Overview of Interface Analysis
• Interface Analysis Process Steps
• Challenges and Benefits

Module 6: Root Cause Analysis

• Overview of Root Cause Analysis
• Root Cause Analysis Techniques

Module 7: Prototyping

• Overview of Prototyping
• Prototyping Process Steps
• Challenges and Benefits

Module 8: Context Modeling

• Overview of Context Diagrams
• Components of a Context Diagram
• Notation Variations
• Naming Conventions
• Context Diagramming Approach

Module 9: Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

• Overview of Work Breakdown Structures
• Creating a WBS

Module 10: Use Case Diagram

• Overview of Use Case Diagrams
• Components of a Use Case Diagram

Module 11: Use Case Description

• Overview of Use Case Descriptions
• Elements of a Use Case Description
• Approach to Writing Use Case Descriptions
• Alternate and Exception Flows
• Use Case Description Format and Template Variations
• Advanced Use Case Concepts

Module 12: Business Process (Workflow) Modeling

• Overview of Workflow Models
• Decomposing a Process
• Workflow Modeling Notations

Module 13: Activity Diagrams

• Overview of Activity Diagrams
• Activity Diagram Notation
• Activity Diagram Approach

BAI239a Course Code