Course Objectives
• Understand the role of the business analyst and core competencies for performing successfully
• Discuss the criticality of business analysis and requirements for successful project outcomes
• Understand the main professional associations and standards supporting business analysts in the industry
• Discuss the common problems with requirements and explore approaches to address these issues
• Obtain a clear understanding of the various requirements types and the significance for eliciting each type
• Demonstrate your ability to identify stakeholders
• Explore various methods for understanding and analyzing stakeholders
• Discuss and apply good planning practices to requirements elicitation efforts
• Obtain knowledge and understanding of over 15 current and commonly applied elicitation techniques
• Understand how to progress from elicitation to analysis to documentation
• Write well-formed and validated requirements
• Gain understanding of the best practices for writing quality requirements
• Learn the technical writing techniques that apply directly to writing requirements documents
• Discuss writing pitfalls, risks that impact requirements, and how to address them
• Learn best practices for communicating and collaborating with stakeholders, sharing the results of elicitation and the resulting documentation
• Learn approaches for validating requirements
• Understand the difference between validating requirements and validating the solution
Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for beginner to intermediate business and requirements analysts who are looking to improve their elicitation and requirements writing and documentation skills. This course is also a great fit for technical writers, product and software testers, project managers, product owners who work closely with business analysts or who perform some for of business analysis themselves.
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