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The Modular Project Management®
Advanced Information Technology Modules Include:
E. Improving Requirements Definition
Business and system requirements are the foundation upon
which all systems are constructed. They are the key connection points
between the business personnel who will use the system and the people
who will develop the system. Unfortunately these two groups often speak
different languages and think in different ways. The requirements are
most often written or verbalized and require interpretation and assumptions
on the part of the developer. It is these very interpretations and assumptions
that eventually lead to a system that "is not quite what the business
expected."
This module covers all the topics in a full day, with
application of the content against participants' current requirements.
In the half-day format, some of the topics are only covered in summary,
but participants still apply content to current requirements. Participants
leave the workshop with a copy of our PASS checklist for Requirements.
Project Audit Support Service® makes it easy and fun to improve requirements!
The module gives you a proven set of techniques, methods
and tricks to help you write clear, unambiguous, complete requirements.
The techniques apply whether you are from the business or from the development
side. The techniques help you to know what you know,
know what you don't know, and reveal what you didn't know you didn't
know.
Prerequisite: Participants need to bring requirements
from a current project.
 Learning
Objectives
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Describe
the problems with language as a requirement definition technique,
and apply a process that produces optimum natural language requirements. |
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Ask the ten critical questions,
and then improve understanding by writing clear, unambiguous requirements
sentences; then categorizing the sentences into five types of requirements |
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List visible requirements
definition techniques, including Use Cases, Prototyping, Process
Models and Data Models. |
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Identify methods that
accelerate requirements definition and the benefits of doing so. |
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Describe the use of
PASS (Project Audit Support Service®) to evaluate and improve
requirements definition. |
Audience
This module is ideal for Information Technology professionals and their customers, attending together, and using their in-process Requirements for a current project as their case study focus. Also benefitting is anyone who develops or uses business requirements in an IT project, plus managers of those who do so.
Prerequisite: Participants bring requirements from a current project. We apply our content, plus our unique Project Audit Support Service® checklist to evaluate the effectiveness of your requirements.
Portions of this module are © 2004 Myers and Associates, Inc.
Modular Project Management is a registered trademark of Goff Associates, Inc., the ProjectExperts.
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