Course Objectives:
Provide participants with a practical, hands-on introduction to gathering and managing business requirements.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of the course, the participants will:
- Understand how to effectively and efficiently gather, analyze, and document business requirements
- Be able to develop business requirements based on moving from AS IS to TO BE process maps
- Use analytical and design tools such as process maps, entity relationship diagrams/logical data models, and state transition diagrams.
- Demonstrate the appropriate interpersonal skills and abilities to work as a member of a business analysis team and to elicit business requirements
- Understand the systems development life cycle (SDLC) from business case through to implementation
Course Overview:
- Introduction to the SDLC and the importance of proper requirements management
- Stakeholder identification and analysis
- Managing scope and scope creep
- Requirements elicitation methods
- Discovering and documenting activities
- Discovering and documenting data requirements
- Requirements tracking
- Business rules
- Writing use cases
Prerequisites:
This course is aimed at business analysts, process analysts, business architects, and anyone who needs to develop and manage business requirements. No previous knowledge of requirements analysis is required.
Duration:
2 or 3 days depending on exercises and client requirements.
Delivery Method:
This course is delivered using a combination of lecture, practice exercises, and case study where participants will have ample opportunity to practice and apply the theory delivered in the course. The course can be customized to utilize case studies specific to your organization.
