Best Practices in Requirement Management

Concepts

Experience reports suggest that up to 80% of maintenance effort is spent in fixing software problems related to requirements incompleteness, ambiguity, clarity. Requirements are continuously changing and customers do not know what they want until they do not get it. Project managers, test managers and every one involved in a software project assert that the most frustrating problem is continuously changing requirements and scope creep. Also, even if a project starts with some reasonable requirement practices, very soon everyone gets too busy with the project and requirement documents never get updated. In addition, current requirement definition and refinement practices do not support detailed, unambiguous, and precise requirements.

One obvious solution is to have a well-defined requirement management process that incorporates best practices. This course will cover every aspect of the requirement management process. The course will cover many of the best practices that the instructor has implemented over his thirty year experience working with requirements.

Who should attend:

This course is essential for project managers, project leads, quality and test managers, process engineers, requirement engineers, business and system analysts and every one involved in the requirement process.

Learning Objectives:

Attendees will learn the following:

• The different types of requirements
• How to use requirement traceability to manage requirements
• What are the good characteristics of requirements
• How to use requirements models and artifacts to make sure requirements are complete, precise and unambiguous
• How to breakdown requirements to scenarios to provide more details for development and testing

Course Outline:

• Understanding types of requirements
• Requirements in agile Vs non-agile projects
• Requirement traceability
• Quality Vs Functional Requirements
• Model-Based Requirements Management
• Scenario-Based Requirement analysis
• Online collaborative requirement reviews
• The elements of a good requirement management process