Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - Reston, VA

A system is only as good as its requirements, regardless of your business, method or tools. Without clear, comprehensive requirements and use cases, the project will either miss the mark or result in frequent readjustments and scope creep.

This course covers the creation and management of requirements and use cases, and how they fit within the broader context of the software development lifecycle. Participants will receive a practical understanding of requirements writing through the use of real-life business scenarios and related exercises.

This course has proven ideal for organizations looking to reinforce best practices or undertaking requirements definition and management for the first time.

Business analysts, consultants, project managers, and anyone responsible for eliciting, specifying, writing and validating business or user requirements and use cases

None

One day (7 hours)

8 Continuing Development Units (CDU)

• Requirements Overview
  • Development phases
  • Current development methodologies
  • Role of requirements throughout the lifecycle
• Business Use Case Overview
  • What are business use cases?
  • Benefits of business use cases
• Users/Stakeholders
  • Requirements elicitation/requirements management
  • Who are the stakeholders?
• User Requirements Overview
  • Developing user requirements
  • Forms of user requirements
  • Developing and reviewing capability flow diagrams
• Use Case Development
  • Keys to developing effective use cases
  • Components of a simple use case
  • How do I get started?
  • Alternates and exceptions
  • Business requirements/non-functional requirements
  • Use case review process
  • Developing technical requirements from use cases
• Requirements and Testing
  • Purpose of testing
  • Developing user test plans from use cases