Requirements Analysis Training Course

Introduction

  • Principles of requirements engineering

Overview of Requirements and Requirements Analysis

  • Types of requirements
  • Quality of requirements
  • Importance of requirements analysis

Defining the Four Core Components of Requirements

  • Data
  • Process
  • External agent/actor
  • Business rules

Understanding Requirements Analysis Methodology

  • Context analysis
  • Design requirements analysis
  • States and modes analysis
  • Parsing analysis
  • Functional analysis

Applying Different Requirements Analysis Techniques

  • Diagramming
  • Modelling
  • User Stories
  • Glossary
  • Phototyping

Managing Requirements Using an Iterative Process

  • Linking Agile to Business
  • Identifying, controlling and managing changes to requirements
  • Determining the project scope
  • Reviewing, validating and testing correct understanding of detailed specifications

Best Practices

Summary and Conclusion

Contemporary Development Principles and Practices Training Course

Module 1:  Traditional Development Approaches

  • 1.1 Overview of Sequential, Predictive Development Approaches
    • Description of sequential, predictive ‘Waterfall’ approaches
    • Timeline of evolution of Waterfall approaches
  • 1.2 Strawman Waterfall
    • Dr Winston Royce’s Waterfall model
    • Benefits of Waterfall for controlling projects
    • Royce’s “Inherent risks”
  • 1.3 V-Model
    • Early verification and validation
    • Benefits of V-model
  • 1.4 Incremental Models
    • Example of Rational Unified Process
    • Incremental delivery
    • Breaking down scope and managing risk
  • 1.5 When to Use Waterfall
    • Defined process control

Module 2:  Prince2 Overview

  • 2.1 What is Prince2?
    • Definition and origins
    • Prince2 Certifications: Foundation, Practitioner, Agile
    • Benefits of Prince2
  • 2.2 Prince2 Methodology
    • Roles – Project manager, customer, user, supplier, project board
    • Management Techniques – Project assurance, project support
    • Scope – Interaction with contracts and contractual management
    • Controlling Change – Risk, quality, and change management
  • 2.3 Prince2 Process Model
    • Directing a project
    • Starting up a project
    • Initiating a project
    • Managing stage boundaries
    • Controlling a stage
    • Managing product delivery
    • Closing a project
    • Planning                             

Module 3:  Agile Overview

  • 3.1 Historical Overview
    • Timeline of evolution of ‘Agile’ ideas 90s to present
    • Early Agile approaches – Scrum, XP, DSDM
    • Agile Developments – Kanban, BDD, DevOps, Scaling
  • 3.2 The Agile Manifesto
    • Background to creating the Manifesto
    • Agile Manifesto overview
      • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
      • Working software over comprehensive documentation
      • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
      • Responding to change over following a plan

Module 4:  Agile Principles

  • 4.1 The 12 Agile Principles
    • Group discussion on each principle
  • 4.2 Summary of Agile concepts
    • Iterative planning and development
    • Continuous improvement
    • Continuous learning
    • Collaboration and face-to-face communication
    • Collective accountability
    • Cross-functional teams

Module 5:  Agile Project Management with Scrum

  • 5.1 The Scrum Framework
    • Overview – Scrum Guide 2016
    • Scrum roles and responsibilities – Scrum Master, Product Owner, Team
    • Scrum events – Sprint, Sprint Planning, Review, Retrospective, Daily Scrum
    • Scrum artefacts – Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Product Increment
  • 5.2 Agile Project Management Principles
    • Empirical Process Control
    • Iterative planning and reporting
    • Continuous Improvement and retrospection
    • Resource management and teams

Module 6: Software Testing

  • 6.1 Testing Fundamentals
    • The Fundamental Test Process
      • Planning, Analysis & Design, Execution, Evaluation, Closure
    • Test levels – unit, integration, system, user acceptance
    • Test approaches – requirements-based, risk-based, experience-based
    • Test design techniques – white-box, black-box techniques
  • 6.2 Agile Testing
    • Agile Testing Quadrants overview – test strategy, planning
    • Test-driven development
    • Test automation principles – test automation pyramid
  • 6.3 Test Types
    • Technology-facing tests that guide development
      • Unit testing, TDD, smoke tests
    • Business-facing tests that guide development
      • Story tests, examples, acceptance testing
    • Business-facing tests that critique the product
      • Exploratory testing, Alpa/Beta testing, UAT
    • Technology-facing tests that critique the product
      • Performance testing, usability, quality attributes              

Module 7:  Traditional Business Analysis

  • 7.1 What is Business Analysis?
    • Business analysis and the business analyst
    • Levels of business analysis – enterprise, project, operational
    • Business Analysis principles
  • 7.2 IIBA BA Book of Knowledge – Knowledge Areas
    • Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
    • Elicitation and Collaboration
    • Requirements Life Cycle Management
    • Strategy Analysis
    • Requirements Analysis and Design Definition
    • Solution Evaluation

Module 8:  Agile Business Analysis

  • 8.1 Agile Business Analysis Considerations
    • Iterative development
    • Cross-functional teams
    • Collaboration between business and technology areas
  • 8.2 Behaviour-Driven Development Overview
    • Origins in TDD and recent developments
    • Definitions – BDD, ATDD, Specification by Example
  • 8.3 BDD Activities
    • Focus on features that deliver business value
    • Derive features collaboratively
    • Keep options open
    • Use concrete examples to illustrate features
    • Write executable specifications
    • Create living documentation
  • 8.4 Agile BA Techniques & Tools
    • Business value definition
    • Personas
    • Impact Mapping
    • Real options
    • User Stories and acceptance criteria
    • Relative estimation
    • Given-When-Then template
    • Tool support for BDD