Duration: 3 Days
In this course, you will learn to use a requirements work plan to help you define your requirements activities, including elicitation activities, analysis activities, and support activities to consumers of the requirements. With this list of activities you can confidently estimate tasks, identify sources of requirements, and elicit requirements from these various sources. You will use a requirements work plan to help you track progress and communicate the status of requirements activities.
What You Will Learn
- Develop creditability as a
business analyst
- Organize
your business analysis tasks
- Make the most of your stakeholder's time
- Make more accurate estimates for business analysis activities
- Establish requirements communication vehicle and frequency
- Establish estimates time commitments for business analysts and Stakeholders
- Determine business analysis
status
- Establish business
analysis deliverables
- Spend
more time on requirements to accelerate software development
- Efficiency opportunities
- Establish standards for business analysis work plan
- Inputs needed for solution level requirements analysis
- Factors that accelerate and lengthen a requirements development effort
- Multiple planning approaches based on the project type, methodology, and
complexity
- Impact of
stakeholder analysis and involvement on your planning
- Elicitation techniques to consider when planning
- Analysis models and how to chose the right one or ones
- Increase probability of project success
- Use as a negotiation tool
Audience
- Business analysts
- Developers
- Data modelers
- Process modelers
- Project managers
- Enterprise
architects
- Entry-level user
experience professionals
Prerequistes
Course Outline
1. Business Analysis Work Plan
- What is a business analysis work plan?
- Why should I create a work plan?
2. Initiating a
Business Analysis Effort
- Outputs of Initiation Phase
- Identification of Project Characteristics
- Stakeholder Analysis and Communication
- Requirements Deliverable Checklist
3.
Components of the Business Analysis Work Plan
- Plan Elicitation Activities
- Plan Requirements Analysis and Documentation Activities
- Plan Solution Assessment and Validation Activities
- Establish Communication Plan
- Establish Requirements Management Plan
- Business Analyst's Action Plan
- Create a Real-World Action
Plan
Exercises:
Exercise 1: Share projects and select one as case
study going forward
Exercise 2: Assess the outputs of initiation phase
Exercise 3: Assess the project characteristics
Exercise 4: Assess the case
study stakeholders and develop profiles
Exercise 5: Document the deliverables
that will culminate the business analysis effort
Exercise 6: Develop list of
elicitation events with estimations
Exercise 7: Develop a list of
requirements analysis and documentation activities with estimates
Exercise 8:
Develop a list of solution assessment and validation activities with estimates
Exercise 9: Develop a list of events in which communication is required with
estimates
Exercise 10: Establish a Requirements Management Plan
Course Labs
