How to Capture and Tame Business Requirements

It is very early in your project. How will you, the business system analyst, and the business subject matter experts (SMEs) determine what the system should do when you are finished? There are many people involved, each with different expectations and needs. How can you deal with these difficulties, gather reasonable requirements quickly, and not waste the effort?

This training workshop offers techniques for determining how to gather, capture or elicit business requirements from subject matter experts. Whether you are preparing for a 1-on-1 interview or creating an email survey to get requirements, you will find a useful, proven set of techniques and tricks for identifying problems and gathering requirements, organizing the answers and checking the completeness of the results. You will learn how to identify the events and responses that focuses on the business needs or goals for the system. Business requirement statements ultimately define what the solution has to do. Capturing critical business requirements is the primary goal of during early project phases.

This workshop is a subset of the class 1-10 How to Gather and Define Business Requirements

Identify stakeholders
Manage Questions and Open Items lists
Extract requirements from management vision statements
Prepare, perform and follow up problem and requirement identification interviews
Capture business requirements through surveys
Perform the six types of requirements gathering workshop sessions
Describe how "Analysis by Walking around" identifies requirements
Use the 10 Critical Requirements Questions job aid to capture requirements
Develop requirements based on business events and responses
Identify Requirements from Business Data Usage
Identify the pros and cons of prototyping for requirements
Write clear, easy-to-understand problem statements
Relate Problems and Symptoms
Create business requirements from problem statements

ILT: 1 day
Virtual: 2 Mods

Business Analysts
Business Mangers
Business Systems Analysts
Developers
End Users
Project Leaders
Requirements Analysts
Subject Matter Experts
Systems Analysts
Technical Analysts