Writing Effective Requirements

    

Summary:
Successful projects are built on the foundation of well-written requirements. You will learn to identify your audience, determine their requirements, and provide them with adequate and appropriate information. You'll learn the technical writing techniques that apply directly to writing requirements documents and you'll learn to apply the five Cs of writing-correct, clear, concise, comprehensive, and cohesive-to writing requirements. You will use lists, tables, and graphs to structure requirements information for clarity. And you will use white space, information chunking, and headings to improve readability. This course covers the "Requirements Documentation" knowledge area of the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK).Included:Full Student GuideRequirements templates

Duration:
2 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This course is intended for Business analysts, requirements analysts, technical writers, systems analysts, developers, software engineers, IT project managers, project managers, project analysts, project leaders, senior project managers, team leaders, program managers, testers, and QA specialists.

Topics:

• Write well-formed and validated user requirements
• Organize and sequence requirements into a user requirements document
• Prepare a plan for completing a user requirements project
• Conduct efficient user requirements elicitation meetings
• Analyze requirements using a process mapping methodology
• Manage changes to the user requirements
• Introduction
• Writing Effective requirements
• Knowing your audience and their needs
• Gathering Effective Requirements
• Capturing and Communicating Requirements
• Verifying and Validating Requirements
• Additional Information

Last Update: February 10, 2012