This two-day workshop is intended to help individuals who perform the requirements analyst role on a software project become more proficient at specifying high-quality requirements of various types.

Participants will spend considerable time in the class reviewing less-than-perfect requirements for problems and rewriting them. Students are asked to bring some requirements from their own project that they can then review and try to improve. Another important aspect of the workshop is to learn about the importance of peer reviews of requirements and to get some practice in examining a colleague’s work and providing constructive review feedback.

On completion of this seminar, participants will be able to:

• Describe the characteristics of high-quality requirements
• Evaluate functional requirements and quality attributes
• Review and provide feedback on requirements written by other analysts
• Document data dictionary entries and business rules
• Describe the components of a well-structured use case
• Derive functional requirements from the components of a use case
• Write functional requirements and quality attributes that are more precise, richer in detail, less ambiguous, and more actionable than before