Project Requirements
Course Description:
Project failure is often linked to the quality of requirements and the effective management of those requirements. Even though it is widely accepted that effective requirements development and management are key for success; team members, project managers and organizations often struggle with the requirements process. This course provides participants with a framework and strategy for developing and managing project requirements to maximize the likelihood of successful projects. Participants will also learn to identify and avoid the common requirements pitfalls.
"Excellent! A lot to think about and good things to immediately use." K. Rubinson, Palm Beach County School District
Learning Objectives: After completion of this course the participant will be able to:
- Understand how to properly define project scope and link it to organizational values and strategy
- Manage stakeholders during the requirements process
- Generate requirements
- Minimize "so called" missing or TBD requirements
- Establish metrics for requirements
- Know the characteristics of good requirements
- Organize requirements into logical and manageable structures
- Properly track requirements throughout the project life cycle
- Avoid common requirements mistakes
- Understand how to create a change management process that stabilizes requirements
Course Agenda
- Project Scope
- Scope and requirements
- Scope changes
- Scope documentation
- Project management plan
- Requirements development - art or science?
- Requirements processes
- Requirements complexities
- Obstacles to good requirements
- Poor requirements
- Requirements Risks
- Stakeholder Management During the Requirements Process
- Identifying stakeholders
- Requirement owner responsibilities
- Stakeholder interview questions
- Objectives
- Fundamental and means objectives
- Requirements Management
- Requirements processes
- Requirements development
- Requirements documents
- Requirements Characterization
- Requirements shell
- SMART requirements
- Rationale
- Systems Hierarchy
- Functional requirements
- Non-functional requirements
- Global requirements
- Interfaces
- Ancillary requirements
- Requirements Creation
- Requirements gathering
- Requirements gathering meetings
- Knowledge gathering
- Organizing requirements
- Mind maps
- Requirements generation
- Process maps
- Quality function deployment
- Effective questioning
- Use cases
- Document review
- Interviews
- Contextual interviews
- Surveillance
- Reuse of existing requirements
- Prototypes
- Requirements Prioritization
- Categorizing and prioritizing requirements
- Pair-wise comparisons
- Requirements Analysis
- Verification
- V-Model
- Verification preparation
- Effective verification tactics
- Reviewing requirements
- Review strategies
- Verification methods
- Requirement review checklist
- Review item disposition
- Requirements Traceability
- N Square diagrams
- Change management
- Requirements baseline
- Change request drivers
- Tracking requirements change history
- Requirements mistakes
About the Instructor
Many people choose a physician by finding out who doctors send their family to when they need medical attention. They are looking for the doctor's doctor, the best of the best. Dr. Brown is a doctor's doctor when it comes to project management. He was chosen to evaluate and update the curriculum of one of the largest project management training companies. He was chosen by one of the leading project management software vendors to evaluate their product. McGraw Hill recently published his book The Handbook of Program Management. Leading companies in the business of project management choose Dr. James T. Brown when they need project management expertise.
Read about Dr. Brown.
"Dr. Brown has conducted several project management classes for my organization including Project Requirements. As a result of the initial training class we easily filled more classes because of the quality of the services he provided. The real world aspects of project management and his use of stories made all the difference in the effectiveness of the training. As the sponsor for the training I was very pleased to receive the following comments from personnel about the classes he conducted:
- Dr. Brown's real world and academic credentials are excellent. His energy from start to finish is phenomenal
- Great Job! Used simple examples to explain at times complex idea
- James is a very good instructor, very well prepared and knowledgeable. He keeps the class involved and amused with personal experiences that directly relate to the material.
I hope you will register and attend this training." K. Rubinson, Palm Beach County School District
Target Audience: Project Managers, Project Team Members, Stakeholders
Length: Two Days
Professional Development Units (PDUs): 14
To schedule this project management training workshop, call 321-269-1222 or email
Dr. James Brown.
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