Writing and Reviewing user Requirements

Course Description

Badly defined requirements are often a cause of more than 70% of all software projects not finishing on time or within the planned budget. If users cannot clearly define the system they want, there is no way that developers can build it. The purpose of this course is to teach users and people representing users how to communicate their requirements clearly.

The course has a practical orientation that includes exercises in defining and writing requirements. It also provides tools (methodology and guidance) that will help in the formulation and review of business requirements. Delegates are expected to bring their own experience to the course and to link the materials covered in the course to the real day-to-day life in their offices.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, delegates will know how to

• translate their ideas into clear requirements

• define functional and non-functional requirements

• evaluate the requirements that they or others have written

• write a clear and comprehensible requirements definition document

• avoid ambiguity in writing requirements

• review a requirements definition document

Target Audience

This course is designed for users of software applications, business analysts, project managers and anyone who has an interest in the software development process. This means it will be of particular interest to senior managers who sponsor or start projects, but who have little understanding of the mechanics of the execution of the project.

Duration

1 day for up to 12 participants