21 Ways to Review Requirements Adequacy

21 Ways to Review Requirements Adequacy

This live interactive web-based  course is designed to provide a comprehensive knowledge base and practical skills for anyone interested in dramatically improving project outcomes.  Wrong, overlooked, and unclear requirements are the main cause of project overruns and disappointments.  Typical projects either don't review requirements or use one or two techniques that are far weaker than realized.  

This course shows and gives practice applying more than 21 much more powerful ways to catch and prevent requirements issues before they create bigger problems.

This course:

• Reveals why traditional reviews miss so many important requirements issues.
• Describes and gives practice using more effective ways to catch format issues, such as lack of clarity, as well as wrong and overlooked content.

This course includes:

• Key business analysis, software project management, and software quality assurance principles and techniques as they relate to:
  • discovering requirements
  • detecting ordinarily-overlooked requirements issues
  • conducting and managing reviews

• How to gain stakeholders' cooperation, support, and advocacy

Course attendees will learn:

• Why catching requirements issues up-front is so important and so difficult
• Generally unrecognized weaknesses of the five ‘regular ways’ relied on for reviewing requirements
• Two foundation techniques that apply to and strengthen all the other ways to review requirements
• The most commonly-known and used methods that address format issues, such as clarity/testability
• More demanding, seldom-known techniques for revealing ordinarily-overlooked requirements
• Most demanding, least-known ways that detect incorrect and incomplete requirements

Course objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course attendees will be able to:

• Understand the requirements process and how reviews fit into it
• Analyze the effectiveness of their current requirements definition and review
• Apply more than 21 ways to detect wrong and overlooked requirements as well as format issues
• Enlist these powerful techniques during requirements discovery
• Reduce stakeholder resistance  

For more information about bringing any of our courses onsite to you organization:
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