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Writing Better Requirements



     

This outline is available as a private course.
Private courses can be held at your site or one of our training venues, and can be customised to fit your requirements.

You can choose to have a private course based on an existing outline or you can choose the most applicable lessons from a number of different outlines and consolidate them into one course.

We can also write bespoke courses to fit your specific requirements, whether you require training on a standard application or a bespoke inhouse system.

Please contact us to discuss this further on 0191 377 8377.
Please contact us to discuss private course dates and locations

 

Course Overview

This course is designed for those who are involved in the systems engineering process in any company - from transport and telecommunications, to aerospace and software. Delegates will learn how to write requirements in a way that guarantees they get the systems they need.

Objectives

Course Content

Introduction

    Why do requirements matter?
    Who are requirements for?
    Different names for requirements
    Different types of specification
    The challenge of writing better requirements
    The requirements writing process

Identifying the stakeholders

    Different types of stakeholder
    Your house extension: a simple case?
    A practical approach to identifying stakeholders

Gathering requirements from stakeholders

    Possible techniques
    Interviews
    Workshops
    Experiencing life as a user
    Observing users at work
    Acting out what needs to happen
    Prototypes

Other sources of requirements

    Possible sources
    Getting requirements for mass-market products
    User requirements in subsystem projects

Structuring the requirements

    You need structure as well as text
    Breaking down the problem into steps
    Organising requirements into scenarios
    Examples of goal decomposition
    Handling exceptions
    Examples and exercises in requirement structure

Requirements in context

    The user requirements document
    Organising the constraints
    Defining the scope
    Requirement attributes
    Keeping track of the requirements

Requirements writing

    Quality, not perfection
    Sketch, then improve
    Anatomy of a good requirement
    Guidelines for good requirements
    Don't write like this

Checking and reviewing

    Checking the document structure with users
    Checking the requirements
    Reviewing
    Success - the reviewed document

Training Options

  • Private course at your company office throughout the UK, at one of our training venues (Durham, Newcastle or Washington) or at an independent location, convenient to you
  • Bespoke course written to your specific needs, at your company office throughout the UK, at our training venue or at an independent location, convenient to you
  • For further information please contact us on 0191 377 8377

What's Included

  • Relaxed refreshment area at our training venues
  • Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venue
  • Comprehensive course manual and exercises


Writing better requirements, learn how to write requirements which lead to getting the systems you need. Training courses in Durham, Washington, Newcastle, North East England.


 
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