Business Dimensions  

Defining Business Need: The Ultimate Requirement



Designed For:
Business analysts, project managers, team leaders, organizational effectiveness specialists or senior professionals with either a business or IT background, who are looking to build on their proficiency in defining the true business need or issue clearly and accurately right from the start.

Overview:
In this two day workshop, participants learn how to remove ambiguity from the business need statement and focus on the true value of the improvement initiative to be undertaken. Participants learn how to use critical thinking skills and techniques, and work with their clients to ensure the right problem is being addressed and quality information gathered about the business requirements, right from the start.

Through extensive use of examples and case study, participants will learn what they can do to construct effective business need statements as well as ensure quality information is gathered about their client’s business requirements.

Benefits:
The participants will build on their critical thinking skills and their own ability to ensure quality information about the business problem or opportunity is explored and gathered prior to solution design:
  • Lead the process of developing quality requirements that address the real business need
  • Increase proficiency defining requirements at the right level
  • Increase confidence to reach common understanding and agreement on important issues among stakeholders

    • Prerequisites:
    A working knowledge of the business analysis process.
    Prior course: Analyst in Action

    Course Content:
    Unit 1: Business Need
  • What is a business need?
  • Business need analysis and requirements
  • Why is defining business need so important?

    • Unit 2: Analysis – Getting Started
  • Critical thinking
  • Dealing with ambiguity
  • Working together creatively

    • Unit 3: Defining the Real Problem or Opportunity
  • Exploring the problem
  • Defining the problem clearly
  • Techniques for removing ambiguity
  • Analyzing the problem

    • Unit 4: Determining Functional Requirements
  • Defining the functional view
  • Functions, attributes, attribute details and constraints
  • Ensuring quality of requirements
  • Managing expectations

    • Unit 5: Putting it all together
  • Case study
  • Documentation
  • Tools and techniques

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    Training Category:
    Classroom Training

    Price:
    $1295.00

    Registration:
    Registration for this event is currently closed.

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