Managing Project Requirements: Smartly

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What you'll learn

Change management cycle of project requirements

Requirements traceability

Causal analysis of frequent requirements getting changed in a project

Managing controllable causes of frequent changes in requirements using various elicitation techniques, requirements analysis methodology and minmapping

Managing uncontrollable causes of frequent changes in requirements using strategies like Agile development and negotiation

Requirements

At least one year experience of working in projects

Exposure to techniques of gathering project requirements (stakeholder analysis, elicitation techniques)

Analyzing problems of requirements and creating solutions using brainstorming

Description

Most of the organizations will be starting their requirements journey with managing requirements. When the number of requirements getting changed is less, then people dependent methods work well for managing them. With the growth in the organization and the number of change requests received, an effective process of managing changes is a must. Several risks related to change management include but not limited to: i. team members working on changes that are not in the scope of the project, ii. Supervisor or project manager not aware of tasks allocated as some change requests directly are sent to the team members from idea owner iii. Improper impact analysis leading to schedule overruns and quality issues. The course on Managing project requirements Smartly will certainly enable the team to use effective best practices in change management. The agenda of the course includes:Change management cycle: detailed explanation with examples and best practicesRequirements traceability: bi-directional and best practicesTackling frequent changes: identify the controllable causes and use techniques to solve themSolving uncontrollable causes of changes: market driven, customer centric, vendor specific, compliance related changes are not in our control. Strategies like Agile and Negotiations are aligned with the solutionMany of the examples and best practices shown are best suited for maintenance projects, platform projects or projects under big programs.References to further career development in terms of certification is also provided.Provision is made to share the challenges faced and best practices followed in your projects, that will attract the guidance and feedback from the facilitator

Overview

Section 1: Challenges in managing project requirements

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Introduction to Change Management Cycle

Lecture 2 Overall change management cycle

Section 3: Detailed change management cycle

Lecture 3 Change management cycle in detail

Section 4: Requirements traceability

Lecture 4 Requirements traceability with examples

Lecture 5 Requirements Traceability Best practices

Section 5: Tackling frequent changes to project requirements

Lecture 6 Addressing the controllable causes of frequent changes

Section 6: Solving uncontrollable causes of frequent changes

Lecture 7 Introduction to Agile - Strategy 1

Lecture 8 Negotiation technique - Strategy 2

Business analysts, Requirements Engineers,Project managers, Supervisors,Members with some industry experience of working in projects