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Requirements Planning and Management

It is well known that poor requirements planning and management is often a major underlying cause of project failure – schedule and budget overruns, solutions that offer little business value and scope creep. It is imperative for the success of projects that requirements activities are well planned and well managed.

This course teaches the approach and considerations for undertaking requirements planning and management. This means starting with the end in mind and explicitly agreeing the requirements management approach in areas such as requirement activities, attributes, artefacts, traceability. It also includes identifying people involved in requirements management, requirements governance, and managing of scope and requirements change.

This course is endorsed by the International Institute of Business Analysis and aligns to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge^®Version 2.0. This course contributes 8 Professional Development Hours (PD Hours) towards Qualifying for your IIBA^® certification and 8 Continuing Development Units (CDUs) towards your recertification for either the CCBA^TMor CBAP^® designation - use the IIBA^® course code E031-008.

Duration

1 Day

Course Objectives

Following the completion of this course, students will be able to:

Understand the success factors of the requirements activities and how to manage them
Identify roles and responsibilities in requirements planning and management
Agree and document a requirements management plan
Estimate and report on requirements management activity
Manage requirements changes and scope changes

Audience

This course is targeted at Business Analysts, Senior Business Analysts and Project Managers who have responsibility for requirements planning and management. It is most suitable to intermediate and experienced business analysts and project team members who already have a strong understanding of basic requirements elicitation and documentation disciplines.

Course Syllabus

Introduction

Overview of requirements planning and management
Why undertake requirements planning and management
Requirements planning and management process

People in Requirements Planning and Management

Success with people – stakeholders, project team, BA team
Engagement and communication

Defining the Requirements Approach

Defining requirements approach to activities, techniques, artifacts, deliverables, common information repositories, prioritisation, attributes, traceability, tracking, tools, risks, and issues
Documenting the requirements approach in a requirements management plan

Ensuring Quality in Requirements

Implementing a requirements quality framework
The quality process

Defining Requirements Governance

Agreeing decision types and decision makers in governance process
Sign-on and sign-off

Managing Scope and Requirements Change

Scope and change management
Change control process
Configuration management

Bringing it all Together

Requirement planning and management activities in a typical project lifecycle
Post implementation review

Related Courses

Refer to Equinox's full suite of Business Analysis training courses.

Prerequisites

Given the stated audience above, all attendees should:

Have attended the Equinox ‘Requirements Analysis Framework’ course AND
Have either a minimum of 18 months experience in eliciting and document requirements OR have attended the Equinox courses ‘Requirements Elicitation’ and ‘Software Requirements with Use Cases’.