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In Search of Excellent Requirements

1 - 3 Day Workshop

 

Requirements form the foundation for all the product development work that follows. Arriving at a shared vision of the product to be developed is one of the greatest challenges facing the project team, and customer involvement is among the most critical factors in product quality. High quality requirements are essential to avoid the unpleasant surprises sometimes experienced when new products are delivered.
 

 

Covering the entire requirements engineering process, this workshop addresses dozens of tested methods that can help any organization improve the way it gathers, documents, and analyzes product requirements. Characteristics of excellent requirements specifications are presented and used to evaluate some sample functional requirements. The workshop emphasizes several practical techniques, including:

  • Customer involvement through a "product champion" model

  • The application of use cases for defining user needs and system functions

  • A simple model for prioritizing requirements

  • Writing product requirements specifications using a standard template

  • Constructing dialog maps to model user interfaces, as well as other analysis models

  • Using prototypes to clarify and refine user needs

  • The use of technical reviews and inspections to find requirements errors

  • Using a requirements traceability matrix to connect requirements to design elements, code, and tests

 

These techniques can reduce project risk by improving the quality of the product requirements, thereby increasing the likelihood of a successfully completed project. Small group discussion sessions let participants identify requirements problems they face on their projects, impacts and root causes, and possible solutions to those problems.

The two- and three-day versions go into more depth on several of these topics; contain additional material on topics such as evaluating the priorities of requested system features and the customer-developer partnership; and they include additional practice sessions on writing requirements, designing a requirements change process, drafting a requirements process improvement action plan, and others.

 

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