Requirements Management in IT Projects - Course Description
Designed for the experienced IT project manager who needs to ensure projects are always delivered on time and within budget while simultaneously satisfying customer requirements.
The objective of this 3-day advanced workshop is to provide IT project managers and project team members with the in-depth knowledge - both the theoretical and practical - required to identify, derive, analyse and manage project requirements throughout the entire project management lifecycle, from Initiation to Close Out. The emphasis is specifically on application to IT projects.
After briefly revisiting the fundamentals of project management – project lifecycle, processes and knowledge areas - the workshop starts in the Initiation phase with stakeholder identification and analysis linking this to requirements identification and analysis as well as communications and risk management. It positions the requirements management lifecycle within the generic project management and IT development lifecycles.
After stakeholder identification and analysis the workshop is structured on requirements identification and progressive elaboration, requirements analysis and baselining requirements.
A requirements management model provides definitions and examples of functional, performance and general requirements. Emphasis is placed on general and specific techniques to identify and derive requirements.
Who Should Attend?
The workshop is designed for the experienced IT project manager who understands the fundamentals of project management but realises that to become more effective in delivering the project on time, within budget AND satisfy the customer’s requirements he/ she needs to become more proficient in Requirements Management.
Learning Outcomes
The objectives of this workshop are for each participant to be able to:
- Conduct a stakeholder analysis as input into stakeholder risk identification, requirements identification and prioritisation and communications planning
- Identify and document functional, performance, technical and general requirements
- Identify requirements risk
- Use a variety of requirements tools and techniques to develop requirements
- Use various methods to review requirements with stakeholders and baseline requirements
- Use a rigorous change management process to perform and impact analysis on change requirements and analyse requirements dependencies
- Identify levels of testing to validate requirements and document results
Close down the project and the requirements
