BA04 - Eliciting and Writing Effective Requirements

Course Objectives

• Understand the role of the business analyst and core competencies for performing successfully • Discuss the criticality of business analysis and requirements for successful project outcomes • Understand the main professional associations and standards supporting business analysts in the industry • Discuss the common problems with requirements and explore approaches to address these issues • Obtain a clear understanding of the various requirements types and the significance for eliciting each type • Demonstrate your ability to identify stakeholders • Explore various methods for understanding and analyzing stakeholders • Discuss and apply good planning practices to requirements elicitation efforts • Obtain knowledge and understanding of over 15 current and commonly applied elicitation techniques • Understand how to progress from elicitation to analysis to documentation • Write well-formed and validated requirements • Gain understanding of the best practices for writing quality requirements • Learn the technical writing techniques that apply directly to writing requirements documents • Discuss writing pitfalls, risks that impact requirements, and how to address them • Learn best practices for communicating and collaborating with stakeholders, sharing the results of elicitation and the resulting documentation • Learn approaches for validating requirements • Understand the difference between validating requirements and validating the solution