
Meet Edward Shehab, a seasoned trainer and consultant in projects, programs, portfolios, and business analysis, with over 15 years of leadership and certifications in program and portfolio management, Six Sigma.
Define a business need as a condition or opportunity that a solution must satisfy, and trace its source—from top-down strategy, through middle management and bottom-up issues, to external trends.
Identify and classify requirements into four categories—business, stakeholder, solution (functional and non-functional), and transition—explaining how each drives design, migration, and organizational goals.
Use focus groups as a structured, interactive method to gather themes from pre-qualified participants, guided by a moderator, producing insights and a report for any project lifecycle stage.
Learn to conduct interviews to gather requirements using structured or unstructured formats. Engage one-on-one or group sessions with careful questioning, active listening, and thorough documentation.
Requirements workshops provide a structured, time-efficient way to scope, discover, define, prioritize, and reach closure on requirements with key stakeholders and experts.
Learn how surveys and questionnaires collect requirements from many stakeholders, comparing open-ended and closed-ended formats, designing purposeful questions, sampling, distribution, and post-survey interviews.
This Requirements Gathering course will teach you how to gather requirements and document them. It examines how to plan for requirements activities and covers the weaknesses and strengths in each. It will cover the ten essential elicitation techniques that are used by most BA's and PM's.
In today’s projects, the biggest success factor is how well the project requirements have been collected and validated. Requirements are the basic components that make up the scope of any project. Project managers and business analysts must plan and closely identify and manage requirements for a project in accordance with existing standards in an organization. First, they must identify key sources of requirements and develop a requirements gathering strategy. Working with requirements involves identifying the activities to be undertaken in order to identify requirements, and this course provides the steps to take before and after each requirements gathering technique.
This course is aligned with the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®) published by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA™), and can be used towards the training preparation for the IIBA’s Certified Business Analysis Professional™ (CBAP™) certification.
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