Course Overview
Requirements analysis and specification writing is an art practiced by many and mastered by surprisingly few—and yet, the payoff from achieving excellence in these areas is large. Inferior requirements significantly increase the cost of system development and the time required to deliver an application. Writing Excellent Requirements focuses on problem avoidance—how to write requirements accurately the first time or improve them before design and coding starts.

This 2-day hands-on workshop builds on the techniques discussed in its companion seminar In Search of Excellent Requirements. Through extensive hands-on exercises and discussion, participants use many of the tools and techniques discussed in the seminar and leave the workshop with the knowledge of how to integrate these techniques to their project. Workshop participants write actual requirements in teams and experience in-depth many of the issues faced in their day-to-day projects. Read More.

Who Should Attend
This seminar is intended business analysts, testing staff, requirements analysts, developers, and project managers to who write and review detailed requirements and functional specifications. The intended audience includes . No specific prerequisites are assumed, but as an attendee, you are expected to be software knowledgeable with at least basic analysis/software development experience. Previous participation in the workshop In Search of Excellent Requirements will equip you with the basic information required for this seminar.

Benefits and Learning Objectives
Through extensive role play and simulation exercises, participants engage many of the tools and techniques discussed in the seminar. Participants gain a pragmatic understanding of how to integrate these procedures and tactics into their projects. Learning topics include:

• Validating the customer vision and scope
• Identifying and documenting user classes
• Developing & documenting the use case model
• Developing detailed functional requirements
• Applying the characteristics of high quality software requirements
• Get the full course outline

Plus, receive valuable takeaways. The workshop manual supplies full concept explanations and techniques used within the course along with valuable templates and worked examples that you can use to create good requirements.

Some comments from past participants:

“I liked the structure of the course. Lots of exercises, discussions, and sharing of experiences"
“GOOD because previously ambiguous practices have now been clarified”
"Great delivery, good job eliciting thoughts from us, kept course moving along, explained things well. Excellent."

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Get more information about the Instructor: Douglas Muir.

Other courses led by this instructor:

• In Search of Excellent Requirements
• Managing Outsourced/Sub-Contracted Projects
• Building Productive Working Relationships
• Managing Strengths and Conflicts
• Project Management: A Team Approach
• In Search of Excellent Requirements (3-day workshop)

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April 7-8     Vancouver, BC         $1095 CAD   Register

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