COURSE SPECIFICATIONS

Course Code:		C316
Duration:		3 hours
Author:		The Information Architecture Group
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Pre-requisites:		None
Level		Intermediate Level

Course Summary

This is one in a series of courses that focus on the phases of The Requirements Discovery Process. This course is intended to take the participant through a process of discovering, describing and documenting your client's business requirements completely, accurately and consistently regardless of your subsequent system development efforts.

This means that whether you are specifying these requirements for a web-enabled application, object-oriented, client-server, legacy system or a combination, true functional business requirements are independent of technology. This is beneficial because you won't need to go back and change the business requirements as the technology changes (which is often).

And we'll be applying best practices along the way so that the resulting business requirements you specify will conform to industry best practices in this particular area.

Delivery Options

Who Should Attend

Business Analysts, Business Systems Analysts, Systems Analysts, Project Managers, Business Managers

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Learning Objectives

In this course you will learn:

• what functional business requirements are and why they are important;
• when we describe functional business requirements;
• who should be involved in the process, and
• how to effectively describe functional business requirements.

Features

Video			Flash
Audio			Interactive Components
Exercises			Live Instructor
Quizes			Printable Reference Material
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Reviews

Delivers what was promised Jan 1, 2003
Reviewer: Dave P from Silicon Graphics

This course delivers what was promised. I found it very valuable, in that I can use these techniques immediately on my projects.

User Friendly - Clear Examples Jan 1, 2003
Reviewer: Steve H, Sr. QA Test Analyst, MCI

This course will now allow me to know exactly what questions to ask the developers to get the desired program updates. These are invaluable techniques to the QA & Test Functions.

Course Content

Describing Functional Business Requirements
What does the course cover?
What is a Functional Business Requirement?
Why we describe Functional Business Requirements?
When do we describe Functional Business Requirements?

• The Software Development Life Cycle
• The Requirements Discovery Process
• The Elicitation Process

Who is Involved?

How to Discover and Describe Functional Business Requirements

• Discovering Functional Business Requirements
• Working with existing requirements lists
• Describing Functional Business Requirements
• The three steps to describing Functional Business Requirements
• The Syntax for two styles of requirements
• The four scenarios for describing functional business requirements

The four scenarios for describing functional business requirements

• Maintenance and enhancement projects
• Building a new system
• Purchasing a packaged solution
• Outsourcing the construction of the system

Building in Quality

• Versioning
• Traceability
• The five C’s to a quality specification: Complete, Clear, Correct, Consistent, Conforming

Reference Material Available

	A summary video of a live Requirements Discovery Session that brings together all the steps, questions and best practices used in the elicitation phase of The Requirements Discovery Process TM
	A summary of the steps and questions -- that you can print and take away as a quick reference sheet
	Additional supporting information available as part of the Ask The Expert feature including:
	Types of System Development Life Cycles References to IEEE and SEI-CMM Describing the business context Action verbs to make your requirements meaningful Discovering and describing data requirements