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Techniques of Gathering Requirements

Key Learning's

• Understanding the role of the business analyst (BRM) in the

• requirements process

• Understanding how Project Management integrates with

• Business Analysis

• Performing diagnostic modeling and determining the "real"

• business problem

• Prioritizing business opportunities for the IT technical team

• Documenting a business case

• Calculating Hard and Soft benefits and performing NPV analysis

• Documenting a Vision and Scope report

• Developing techniques in elicitation, structuring, analyzing, and

validating requirements

• Documenting a business requirements document (BRD)

• Understanding the correlation of key requirement documents

• (Business case, Project Charter, Vision report, Business

• requirements, Functional requirements, User requirements,

• Nonfunctional requirements, Use cases, and Functional

specs, and Technical specs)

Introductory principles to Business Analysis

• Typical functions and roles of business analysis (CIO,

• Account Executives, Relationship Managers, Business

• Analysts)

• Defining the Problem

• Fundamental Project Management concepts

• Key requirements documents

• The role of the SME (Subject Matter Expert)

Requirement Documents

• Business Case

• Vision and Scope Report

• Regulatory Requirements

• Business Requirements

• Functional Requirements

• Non-functional Requirements

• User Requirements

• Use Cases

• Technical Requirements

Diagnostic Modeling

• Defining problem, project vision, and scope

• Dealing with customers that can't articulate their

• problem

• Quantifying quality

• Managing change

Business Modeling

• Documenting and tracking business rules

• High level business models

• Low level Modeling techniques

Developing a Requirements Work Plan

• Principles of project planning during the requirements

phase

• Elements of a requirements work plan

• Identifying business analysis tasks

• Stakeholder analysis and identification

• User identification and profiling

• Associating risk to requirements

• Factoring in risk contingency reserves for •

• implementation

Elicitation Techniques

• Dr. Phil's questioning strategy for customers

• Developing an elicitation strategy

• Elicitation techniques

Writing the BRD (Business Requirements Document)

• Elements of a Business Requirements Document

• Technical writing guidelines

• Leveraging Use cases and activity diagrams

Managing Organization Change

• Techniques in reaching consensus

• Defining a communications strategy

• Building alignment

Validating Requirements

• Validation techniques

• Decision making and approvals

• Managing scope change and risk post-validation

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