1. Requirements Management
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2. What is requirements management. How do we manage requirements
What is requirements management? How do we manage requirements? What kind of challenges BAs may face while getting approval on requirements?
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3. Requirements communication and management
Activities and considerations for managing and expressing requirements to a broad and diverse audience.
Ensures that all stakeholders have a shared understanding of the nature of a solution.
Ensures that those stakeholders with approval authority are in agreement as to the requirements that the solution shall meet.
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4. Requirements management
Manage solution scope and requirements
Manage requirements traceability
Maintain requirements for re-use
Prepare requirements package
Communicate requirements
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5. Manage solution scope and requirements
Purpose: Obtain and maintain consensus among key stakeholders regarding the overall solution scope and the requirements that will be implemented.
Stake holders: Domain SME, Implementation SME, Project Manager, Sponsor
Inputs
Activities
Outputs
Requirements
management plan
Solution scope
Stakeholder List,
Roles and responsibilities
Stakeholder, Solution or
Transition Requirements
Solution scope management
Conflict and issue management
Presenting requirements for review
Approval
Approved
requirements
Tools and Techniques: General techniques, Base lining, Signoff
What is baselining?
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6. Manage solution scope and requirements
Purpose
Obtain and maintain consensus among key stakeholders regarding the overall Solution scope and the requirements that will be implemented.
Elements
Manage solution scope.
Manage conflicts and issues.
Present requirements for review.
Obtain approval on requirements.
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7. What is requirements traceability. How does traceability help
What is requirements traceability? How does traceability help? How do we manage traceability?
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8. Manage requirements traceability
Purpose: Create and maintain relationships between business objectives, requirements, other team deliverables, and solution components to support business analysis or other activities.
Stake holders: Implementation SME, Project Manager, Tester
Inputs
Activities
Outputs
Requirements
management plan
Record dependencies and relationships for
each requirements
Impact analysis
Configuration management system
Traced
requirements
Tools and Techniques: Coverage matrix
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9. Manage requirements traceability
Purpose
Create and maintain relationships between business objectives, requirements, other team deliverables, and solution components to support business analysis or other activities.
Elements
Record dependencies and relationships for each requirement.
Conduct impact analysis.
Implement configuration management system.
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10. Lets look at Traceability Matrix in Software Requirements Specification Template
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11. Maintain requirements for re-use
Purpose: To manage knowledge of requirements following their implementation.
Stake holders: Business Analyst, Domain SME, Implementation SME
Inputs
Activities
Outputs
Organizational
process assets
Requirements
Ongoing requirements
Satisfied requirements
Reusable
requirements
Tools and Techniques: None
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12. Maintain requirements for re-use
Purpose
To manage knowledge of requirements following their implementation.
Elements
Manage ongoing requirements.
Manage satisfied requirements.
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13. Prepare requirements package
Purpose: To select and structure a set of requirements in an appropriate fashion to ensure that the requirements are effectively communicated to, understood by, and usable by a stakeholder group or groups.
Stake holders: Domain SME, End Users, Implementation SME, Project Manager, Regulators, Sponsors, Testers
Inputs
Activities
Outputs
Business analysis
communication plan
Organizational process assets
Requirements structure
Work products and deliverables
Requirements
package
Tools and Techniques: Requirements documentation, Requirements for vendor selection
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14. Prepare requirements package
Purpose
To select and structure a set of requirements in an appropriate fashion to ensure requirements are effectively communicated to, understood by, and usable by stakeholder group(s).
Elements
Prepare work products and deliverables.
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15. Communicate requirements
Purpose: Communicating requirements is essential for bringing stakeholders to a common understanding of requirements
Stake holders: All
Inputs
Activities
Outputs
Business analysis
communication
plan
Requirements
package
General communication
Presentations
Presenting requirements for review
Approval
Communicated
requirements
Tools and Techniques: Requirements workshops, Structured walkthrough
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16. Communicate requirements
Purpose
Communicating requirements is essential for bringing stakeholders to a common understanding of requirements.
Elements
Communicate requirements.
Presenting requirements for review.
Obtain approval.
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17. Summary Requirements is the most critical part of an engagement
Staffing of the Requirements team should be such that it addresses the varied basket of skills that are required
Appropriate Planning and Preparation absolutely vital before take-off
Domain knowledge is critical
Cannot be learnt overnight
Needs a concerted, ongoing effort to really understand a particular domain
Start today!
Develop a consulting mindset
It is your job is to solve problems for the customer, not to be told what to do
Be confident and proactive
Brush up your communication skills if required
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18. Lets test our understanding with sample questions from the chapter.
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19. End of module Would you like to clarify any thing on the module
End of module Would you like to clarify any thing on the module? Any suggestions for improvement?
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