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Course Name How to Gather and Document User Requirements
  This “how-to” course introduces the roles of the business analyst as they relate to the elicitation, analysis and documentation of requirements.
   
Course Duration 4 Days
   
Course Description

*This course is available in eTraining format. If you choose to take up this course in eTraining format, there is a 42-days window to complete the course.  

Learn how to:

- Explain the critical role of the business analyst with respect to requirements elicitation and project management

- Develop and validate a solution vision
and scope

- Use appropriate modeling techniques

- Planning the requirements elicitation and analysis to maximize efficiency and estimate the required effort

- Determine the most appropriate technique(s) for eliciting requirements at different points in the analysis cycle

- Analyze various kinds of requirements into a complete, coherent and organized requirements document

- Build consensus to validate and finalize the requirements in the business requirements document

Professional Development Units (PDUs): 28.0

   
Course Outline

1.Introduction to Requirements Elicitation
- Describing the business analysis process
- Requirements elicitation and the project life cycle
- Establishing the documentation to manage requirements

2.Establishing Vision, Scope and Quality
- Capturing solution vision and defining solution scope
- Creating high-level quality targets for a solution
- Explaining the relationship of vision and scope to quality

3.Modeling at the Enterprise Level
- Describing the function of modeling
- Explaining how business rules drive requirements
- Creating basic business models for enterprise analysis

4.Developing the Requirements Work Plan
-Building and executing a plan for requirements
-Building a work breakdown structure for the business analysis activities
-Identifying stakeholders and classifying users
-Identifying risks and planning risk responses

5.Requirements Elicitation
- Explaining the iterative nature of requirements elicitation process
- Selecting and practicing requirements elicitation techniques

6.Developing the Business Requirements Document (BRD)
- Writing a comprehensive BRD
- Describing how the requirements analysis process completes the BRD sections
- Applying technical writing techniques to requirements documentation
- Documenting requirements using use case models and activity diagrams

7.Validating Requirements
- Validating requirements documented in the BRD
- Selecting and applying consensus building techniques
- Obtaining formal approval to proceed
- Understanding the project’s change control process

   
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