Course Objectives: This essential core requirements course provides participants with industry-proven best practices for successfully identifying, analyzing, and documenting better requirements. This seminar focuses on
critical success factors for getting good requirements, and contains numerous hands-on exercises, take home checklists, requirements guidelines, and real-world examples.
Course Length: 2 Days
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Use Case Boot Camp
Course Objectives: This seminar provides participants with an intensive immersion to modeling requirements with use cases. Participants will learn
practical, real-world, industry-proven use case modeling techniques that can be immediately applied to projects in their work environments. This seminar is packed with
detailed exercises, examples of good (and bad) use cases, take home checklists, and pragmatic tips and advice from a real-world practitioner.
Course Length: 2-3 Days
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Manager's Guide to Getting Good Requirements
Course Objectives: This half-day management briefing provides participants with a candid, no-nonsense discussion of industry best practices for getting good requirements. The seminar
focuses on describing critical success factors managers need to implement to ensure a successful set of requirements is captured by project teams. The construction of this seminar was motivated by
hundreds of business analysts telling me "my boss needs to hear this."
Course Length: 1/2 Day
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Validating Requirements Using Reviews & Inspections
Course Objectives: Informal peer reviews and formal inspections are industy-proven techniques for improving software quality, decreasing costs, and reducing project cycle time.
When implemented correctly, these reviews are also the most effective static testing techniques for discovering defects in requirements. This seminar will provide participants with a thorough understanding of
how to perform effective peer reviews and formal inspections on requirements, and will provide participants with pragmatic tips and take away checklists that can immediately be used on their projects.
Course Length: 1 Day
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Requirements Management
Course Objectives: Establishing and maintaining a common understanding of customer requirements is an essential element in the success of a software project. Failure to adequately manage requirements
over the life cycle of a project can seriously threaten customer satisfaction and the overall success of the project. This course will provide participants with a thorough understanding of the components essential to
implementing a successful requirements management process in any organization.
Course Length: 1 Day
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