Business Analysis: Eliciting Nonfunctional Requirements
What you'll learn
- Recognize the difference between functional and nonfunctional requirements.
- Identify common categories (quality factors) for eliciting nonfunctional requirements.
- Apply a structured Requirements Framework to prepare elicitation questions.
- Understand the nature of nonfunctional requirements and why they can be a challenge.
- Discover a user-focused approach to simplify this frequently misunderstood and overlooked requirement type.
Requirements
- There are no required skills, experience, or tools needed prior to taking this course. You'll learn categories of nonfunctional requirements that can be applied in waterfall, iterative, and agile approaches.
Description
Overlooked or poorly defined nonfunctional requirements are widely recognized to be among the most expensive and difficult errors to correct following the implementation of a software system. This course provides insights from Roxanne Miller's book, The Quest for Software Requirements, as a first-of-its-kind reference guide to help you master the elicitation of these hard-to-identify, yet vital, requirements.
In this course you will learn about:
Common nonfunctional categories (factors) that contribute to developing high-quality software systems and products.
The complex nature of nonfunctional requirements, as well as industry challenges that contribute to the difficulty of understanding nonfunctional requirements.
An anatomy of nonfunctional requirements that provides a simple pattern for developing and defining additional categories beyond those presented.
Aspects to consider when eliciting nonfunctional requirements and provides numerous example requirements.
Six activities that your organization can apply to save time and money by avoiding the consequences of missed nonfunctional requirements.
A user-focused approach to classifying nonfunctional quality factors.
Upon completion of this course you'll be able to:
Classify and identify 19 nonfunctional requirement categories.
Reference hundreds of nonfunctional requirement examples.
Apply an anatomy of nonfunctional requirements to define quality factors that are relevant to your organization.
This course is for those seeking to:
Reduce the risk of missing nonfunctional requirements.
Collaborate with others to develop nonfunctional requirements.
Apply a user-focused approach to eliciting nonfunctional requirements.
Represent nonfunctional requirements in any development environment such as waterfall, iterative, and agile.
Understand factors that contribute to challenges in eliciting nonfunctional requirements.
Who this course is for:
- This course is meant for individuals seeking an introductory understanding of nonfunctional software requirements. No prior technical or business knowledge is needed.
- This course is for those who are seeking to reduce the risk of missing nonfunctional requirements.
- This course is for those who want to collaborate with others to develop nonfunctional requirements.
- This course is for those seeking to discover a user-focused approach to eliciting nonfunctional requirements.
- This course is for those seeking to represent nonfunctional requirements in any development environment such as waterfall, iterative and agile.
- This course is for those seeking to better understand factors that contribute to challenges in eliciting nonfunctional requirements.
Instructor
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Industry expert and the Requirements Super Freak, Roxanne Miller is a Retired Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) and an engaging, passionate requirements coach, mentor, and trainer. Roxanne's popular book, The Quest for Software Requirements, is a first-of-its-kind reference guide that helps business and IT individuals master the elicitation of hard-to-identify and vital nonfunctional requirements. A companion file, Software Requirements Questions, contains the 2000+ elicitation questions included in the book (sold separately).
Roxanne has been involved in the Information Technology (IT) industry since 1984 and founded Requirements Quest® in 2001. Roxanne is committed to bringing your business into focus®! She has been consulting on requirements process improvement and business analysis practices for over 25 years. As principal consultant and lead instructor at Requirements Quest, Roxanne has consulted, mentored, and delivered live training to over 5,000 business analysts worldwide. Roxanne earned a bachelor degree in Management Information Systems (MIS) at the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA.