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Specifying Client Requirements

 

Course Reference: SCR

Overview

This two-day course will provide participants with the practical knowledge to develop accurate, complete and clear business requirements specifications. The course will teach analysts techniques to elicit, describe and document user requirements quickly and easily. It provides a proven effective, real world approach, that is easily learned and easily applied, leading directly to increased IS productivity and reduced systems development and maintenance costs. Participants will learn methods, strategies and techniques that can be easily integrated into a company's existing methodologies and practices, and will provide them with the skills and techniques necessary to begin effective requirements analysis immediately following the course.

Course Content

Overview of Business Requirements Analysis Best Practices:

·          Current development life-cycle concepts,

·          Information modeling & entity-relationship diagramming,

·          Object life-cycle analysis,

·          Event-based analysis,

·          State-transition modeling;

·          Object-oriented analysis,

·          Use-case scenarios,

·          Process modeling,

·          Requirements discovery sessions

Determining a Project's Objectives & Scope:

·          Objective-Oriented Analysis;

·          Clarifying business,

·          Project and system objectives;

·          Aligning requirements with the company's and project's vision, mission, goals & objectives.

·          How to use a Context Diagram effectively,

·          Building use-case scenarios;

·          Identifying business objects and

·          Identifying business events & activities

Identifying a Project's Information Requirements:

·                      Information/Object Modeling.

·                      How to identify your project's objects, business rules, data items, and operations.

·                      Identifying object relationships and organizing the information into a Logical Data Model

Defining the Business Activity's Functional Specifications:

·          Modeling the process and information flow.

·          Defining an activity's triggering events and dependencies;

·          Describing the actions and operations involved.

·          Applying and validating the business rules

·          Defining the activity's objectives and outcomes.

·          Simplified data flow diagramming and other modeling techniques

Conducting a Business Requirements Discovery Session (RDS):

·          Facilitating a session to gather requirements with client/users.

·          The process and logistics of holding a productive RDS

·          Producing clear and concise deliverables –

·          Client Requirements Definition,

·          Business Requirements Specifications,

·          Technical Specs,

·          Request for Proposals, etc

Making it work - For you and your company:

·          Applying these concepts in any development methodology. 

·          Dealing with your clients. 

·          Practical tips, hints, and traps - real world experiences from our consultants.

·          Immediate next step strategies

The Business Case Exercise: Throughout the course, participants will experience all the concepts, strategies and techniques they will need to conduct effective requirements analysis. The consultant will lead them through demonstrations of how these practices work with real world examples - from distribution systems to financial & insurance systems; from production to data warehousing applications. All participants will get numerous chances to practice these skills on a real business case throughout the session.

 

 

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