Business Skills - Requirements Management
In this business analysis course, you will learn how to manage requirements and requirement designs throughout the whole solution development life cycle, using a structured and standardized approach based on latest “Business Analysis Body of Knowledge” (BABOKTM) from IIBATM and various sources from PMITM.
Requirements Life Cycle Management is one of the six knowledge areas identified in BABOKTM and describes the tasks required to manage and maintain requirements and design information from their inception to their retirement. These tasks include establishing and maintaining meaningful traceability between related requirements, designs, and other related elements/components, maintaining requirement attributes/properties, prioritizing requirements, assessing impacts of requirements and/or requirement changes, and gaining consensus and approval on which requirements/designs to implement.
Duration: 30-35hrs
Course Content:
1. Business Analysis: Overview, Core Concepts
What is a Requirement?
Project vs. Product Requirements
Requirements Engineering Overview
Cost of Requirements Errors
Business Analysis Core Concepts Model (BACCMTM)
Requirement Levels and Requirement Types
Systems Thinking
SDLC Phases and Artifacts; Examples
Knowledge Areas, Tasks, and Task Definition (Inputs/Outputs, Stakeholders, Guidelines & Tools, Other factors to consider)
2. Introduction to RLCM: Core Concepts
Purpose
RLCM and the BACCMTM
RLCM Tasks:
Trace Requirements
Maintain Requirements
Prioritize Requirements
Assess Requirement Changes
Approve Requirements
3. RLCM in the BA Context/Big Picture
Where does RLCM fit in the SDLC framework (spectrum)?
RLCM and the BA Core Concepts Model
IIBA vs. PMI
4. Task: Trace Requirements
Purpose (WHY)
Stakeholders (WHO)
Inputs, Activities, Outputs (WHAT)
Process, Guidelines, Tools, and Techniques (HOW)
Knowledge Check and Practice
5. Task: Maintain Requirements
Purpose (WHY)
Stakeholders (WHO)
Inputs, Activities, Outputs (WHAT)
Process, Guidelines, Tools, and Techniques (HOW)
Knowledge Check and Practice
6. Task: Prioritize Requirements
Purpose (WHY)
Stakeholders (WHO)
Inputs, Activities, Outputs (WHAT)
Process, Guidelines, Tools, and Techniques (HOW)
Knowledge Check and Practice
7. Task: Assess Requirements Changes
Purpose (WHY)
Stakeholders (WHO)
Inputs, Activities, Outputs (WHAT)
Process, Guidelines, Tools, and Techniques (HOW)
Knowledge Check and Practice
8. Task: Approve Requirements/Design
Purpose (WHY)
Stakeholders (WHO)
Inputs, Activities, Outputs (WHAT)
Process, Guidelines, Tools, and Techniques (HOW)
Knowledge Check and Practice
9. RLCM's relationships with other KAs
Strategy Analysis
Requirements Analysis & Design Definition
Solution Evaluation
Elicitation and Communication
BA Planning and Monitoring
RLCM [iterative & incremental]
10. RLCM in the context of related BA Perspectives:
RLCM in Agile
RLCM and Business Architecture
RLCM according to PMI
Overview of PMI’s approach on RLCM
PMI Publications, Resources
PMI-PBA Certification
Business Analysis Domains
Requirements Management and Change
Tasks covering/related to RLCM:
Business Analysis Planning
Requirements Elicitation and Analysis
Traceability and Monitoring