Writing Good Requirements
Scope
Requirements
Writing Good Requirements
This one day course teaches you the characteristics of good requirements and how to turn bad into good. It covers how to turn an implementation or operational statement into a requirement. We also cover other data you need, such as rationale, in order to make understanding requirements easier over the project life cycle.
Writing Good Requirements
Skills You Will Gain:
Understand how to identify and fix requirements defects
Write clear and concise requirements
Scope Requirements: Elicit-Write-Validate
This 2 day, comprehensive course focuses on scoping projects and eliciting, documenting, and validating requirements, especially in a regulated or systems engineering environment. Many of the challenges we face on projects can be attributed to; (1) unclear or incomplete vision and scope, (2) struggles in communicating and eliciting requirements from our stakeholders, and (3) incorrect, ambiguous and poorly written requirements. We focus on the front-end of the life cycle where we have the most influence on the success of our projects.
Scope and Requirements
Skills You Will Gain:
Understand how to use scope to better define products
Techniques for eliciting requirements
Write good requirements and avoid requirements defects
Understand the process for reviewing and validating requirements
Requirements Development and Management
This course is a 3 day introduction to systems engineering and how requirements development and management play into the overall systems engineering process. You will learn to define and manage project scope from beginning to end. No matter what development paradigm your organization uses, the fundamental skills and tools that define scope, deliver value, and reduce risk are universal.
Requirements Development and Management Skills You Will Gain:
How to define a project scope
How to write good requirements for systems engineering projects
How to manage requirements across all levels of systems engineering
Who Would Benefit From Core Analysis Classes
Anyone who is involved with defining and delivering projects can benefit from these courses. These skills aren’t just useful for product managers and business analysts! Engineers, business and marketing managers, and quality assurance professionals can apply these principles to their project work as well. Many of our classes are attended by professionals in the following roles:
- Business Analysts
- Product Owners
- Associate Product Managers
- Product Managers
- Programt Managers
- Product Coordinators
- Quality Assurance Engineer
- Software Engineer
- Subject Matter Expert
- Process Improvement Manager
- Business Architect
How We Teach
The best way to learn is by doing. So during our in person classes we get hands-on with real-world scenarios. After each activity, we reflect on what we learned and how you can apply these ideas to our own projects and organizations.
How Professionals Feel About Our Training
"Thanks Betsy, lots of good material to use in our daily tasks. You’ve changed the way I think 😳."
"Thank you for taking the time to come in and conduct the training. The training was great, and I really enjoyed it. The practical tips & techniques that you shared with us were really helpful."
"Thank you Betsy, this was obviously a great investment for Solar.
Thanks to all for the great engagement!"
Frequently asked questions
We offer courses both as an in-person seminar and online instructor-led class. No matter how the class is delivered, we use hands-on activities and student collaboration and discussion to really explore the material and get the most from the class time.
We sometimes offer public classes at pre-scheduled times and places. We also offer private classes for your organization’s unique training needs. Because our trainers are also practicing consultants, we often try to schedule classes 6 weeks out. If your needs require more urgent training, please give us a call to discuss.
Our classes and hands-on activities are designed to be readily applicable to people in different kinds of organizations, industries, and roles. But if you need something more customized, let’s talk and figure out what you need and if we can help.
We are currently not certified PMI or IIBA training partners, but our classes do count towards your PDU/CDU requirements. Once the training has been completed, we’ll provide you with the information you need to apply them.
All of our trainers are senior consultants who actively work on client projects. They bring their real-world experiences and stories to the classroom to make our classes even more relevant and exciting!
What Makes Us Experts?
We created Requirements Modeling Language (RML) and wrote the book(s) – literally. So it makes sense that we also build the best AI requirements product!