Requirements Elicitation (Part 1):

Module 1: Introduction

Module 2: Fundamentals of Requirements Elicitation

• Challenges with requirements elicitation and requirements
• Best practices to overcome elicitation and requirement challenges
• Common elicitation techniques
• Requirement types

Module 3: Understanding the Objectives and Product Scope

• Strategy Analysis; the start to defining the business need
• The importance of documenting business objectives and product scope before elicitation
• Context diagramming to define product scope

Module 4: Identifying and Analyzing Stakeholders

• The importance of stakeholder analysis and management
• Factors to consider when determining which elicitation techniques to utilize

Module 5: Interviews, Focus Groups, & Surveys

• The interviewing technique and when best used
• Benefits and weaknesses of interviews
• Questions types
• Conducting a good interview
• Benefits and weaknesses of Focus Groups and Surveys
• Best practice tips for focus groups and surveys

Module 6: Brainstorming and Workshops

• The benefits and weaknesses of workshops
• Types of workshops
• Facilitate a workshop
• Decision rules
• Practicing facilitation skills
• Benefits and weaknesses of brainstorming

Module 7: Process Modeling using Activity Diagrams

• Purpose and benefits of process modeling
• Using process modeling to elicit
• The UML® equivalent – Activity Diagrams
• Observation as an elicitation technique

Module 8: Prototyping

• Benefits and weaknesses of prototyping
• Key prototyping terms
• Three forms of prototyping; storyboard, wireframes, and HTML (functional prototypes)

Module 9: Document Analysis, Reverse Engineering, and Interface Analysis

• The role of document analysis in requirements elicitation
• Benefits and weaknesses of document analysis
• Reverse engineering to uncover unknown information about an existing solution
• The value of Interface Analysis

Module 10: Requirement Elicitation Wrap-Up

• What will you take away?
• Additional Information
• Transition to part 2 of the course Use Cases Workshop

Requirements Analysis using Use Cases (Part 2):

Module 11: Introduction

• Course objectives
• Understanding of business analysis
• Knowledge areas of BABOK® Guide

Module 12: Overview of Use Cases

• Describe the purpose and value of a use case approach
• Use case terminology
• Introducing a use case approach

Module 13: Needs Assessment

• Purpose of Needs Assessment
• Needs Assessment and use cases
• Defining and understanding the strategic goals and objectives
• Understanding the business process
• Identifying actors
• Identifying business information
• Analyzing locations and operations
• Drawing the business use case diagram
• Building the business architecture
• Defining solution options

Module 14: Defining System Scope

• Product scope/project scope
• System actors versus business actors
• Analyzing the business process model
• Analyzing business use cases
• Identifying candidate use cases
• Identifying scenarios
• Diagramming use cases
• Draw a use case diagram
• Create a use case catalog

Module 15: Evaluating, Prioritizing, and Packaging Use Cases

• Iterative nature of this work
• Evaluating use cases
• Use case priority
• Use case risk
• Use case complexity
• Use case dependencies
• Evaluate and Prioritize use cases
• Dividing work up between releases
• Packaging
• A process for how to perform packaging

Module 16: Writing the main success scenario

• Use case descriptions
• Primary and secondary goals
• Assumptions
• Pre-conditions
• Triggers
• Post-conditions
• Scenario example
• Main success scenario
• Conditional execution
• Use cases and requirements
• Best practices for writing a use case description

Module 17: Writing the other scenarios

• Scenarios and flows
• Alternate scenarios and flows
• Alternate vs. basic flow
• Guidelines for alternate flows
• Exception flows
• Failed post conditions
• Write alternate and exception flows

Module 18: Process Modeling to describe use case flows

• UML® Activity Diagram Notation
• Sequencing activities
• Developing an activity diagram
• Facilitated sessions
• Draw a UML® Activity Diagram

Module 19 Using Advanced Diagramming Techniques

• Commonality
• Dependency Relationships
• <<Includes>>
• <<Extends>>
• Identify <<include>> and <<extend>> relationships
• Comparing the different relationships

Module 20: Developing a Requirements Specification

• Requirements and use cases
• Detailed requirements
• Common approaches to specifications
• Non-functional requirements
• Write non-functional requirements
• User interface requirements
• UI data descriptions
• Business rules
• Decision tables and inference rules
• How to document simple calculations
• Reporting requirements
• Data requirements
• Data accessibility requirements
• Traceability

Module 21: Course Summary

• Wrap-up
• Finding more information