Creating & Managing Agile Requirements

What you'll learn:

• Powerful techniques for identifying, documenting, and verifying requirements
• The best of both the formal Plan-Driven and Agile requirements approaches
• Use the Product Vision as a roadmap to success
• How to elicit and document system requirements
• New skills with practical, interactive exercises

Clear, concise, and accurate requirements will help avoid late, over budget, or canceled projects. Too much documentation or inflexible requirements can bog down a project. Find the right mix of formal written requirements and Agile documentation -- user stories, use cases, prototypes, and visual models -- that works best for you.

This practical, hands-on course will provide a flexible requirements development approach customized to your environment and the skills needed to successfully discover, analyze, communicate, and evaluate requirements.

Learn how requirements within Plan-Driven and Agile development approaches differ in terms of requirements timing, depth, and documentation. How agile planning is properly done and where requirements fit into this iterative planning process. Understand different types of requirements, their purpose, and how to iteratively create and manage them as software is planned, built, tested, and deployed.

Practice New Skills with Interactive Exercises
This course offers interactive exercises to provide practical experience and improve your requirements development skills. Use a real-world case study to identify stakeholders, develop a vision statement, and produce concise, accurate, and usable requirements documentation. Find ways to transfer the newly learned techniques back to your organization’s requirements process and take away a framework for understanding business and user needs to develop a suitable software solution.

Who Should Attend
Whether you are a requirements or business analyst, software engineer, developer, test engineer, user, stakeholder, or a member of the QA staff responsible for gathering, analyzing, documenting, confirming, and maintaining requirements, this course is for you.