Mastering the Requirements Process

Overview
Software can solve almost any problem. The problem is that we don't always understand what the problem is. Understanding the problem—the real problem—is the role of the requirements process.

This workshop presents a complete process for uncovering the real requirements, testing them for correctness, and recording them clearly, comprehensibly and unambiguously. This requirements process starts with the business—for it is only within the business that you discover the real needs. When you know the real needs, it is possible to determine the system that best serves those needs, and to specify, completely and innovatively, the requirements to get the right system built.

This workshop shows you how to precisely define the scope of the business problem, to discover and involve the appropriate stakeholders, to use today’s techniques to learn what the business really needs, to innovate and find better ways to do the work, to communicate effectively and to write testable, unambiguous requirements.

Learning Objectives

• Determine the real needs of your client
• Uncover the essence of the business
• Recommend a system to improve it
• Learn diverse elicitation techniques to uncover the real requirements
• Write requirements that are complete, traceable, and testable
• Write agile stories
• Understand the role of the business analyst in agile projects
• Understand the need for (and how to write) both functional and non-functional requirements
• Precisely define the scope of the project
• Discover all the stakeholders and keep them involved
• Use prototypes and sketches to discover hidden needs
• Get the requirements quickly, and incrementally
• Use state of the art requirements techniques
• Discover the right requirements