Price: $1,699.00

Course Number: 900
Length: 2 Days
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The two-day Specification Development and Writing course addresses the techniques used to write requirements and technical design specification. The course teaches the attendees the techniques to capture, validate and gain a complete understanding of requirements communicated at all stages of the system life cycle and concert them into a specification.

Eliciting, collecting, and developing requirements workshop is an interactive course combined of several labs, group activities, practical exercises, real-world case studies, and hands-on seminars.

Training Objectives

Upon the completion of this training, the attendees are able to:

  • Analyze the validity of project requirements
  • Identify relevant stakeholders, validating their needs and write high-level requirement
  • Create a framework for a requirements and specifications writing
  • Choose appropriate tools for requirements and specification writing
  • Elicit, analyze and write and trace requirements by applying different tools
  • Apply best practices of specification and requirements writing and development

Audience

Requirements and Specification Writing Training is a 2-day course designed for:

  • Business analysts
  • Project managers
  • Project engineers
  • Software engineers
  • Design team personnel
  • All individuals who are involved in the processes of writing and developing specifications and requirements.

Course Outline

Basics of Systems Engineering

  • Definition of Common Terms
  • System Definition and Design
  • Design Methodologies
  • Process flow for system development
  • Master Plan Scope
  • Concept of Operations (ConOps)
  • Preliminary Engineering Activities
  • Requirements Development
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Final Engineering Activities

Requirements Analysis

  • Introduction to Requirements
  • The Quality of Requirements
  • Description of Requirements Writing (within the larger context of system development)
  • Overview of Requirements Development
  • Requirements Elicitation

Communication Techniques for Eliciting Requirements

  • Stakeholder involvement
  • Defining valid and meaningful needs
  • Technical reviews
  • Stakeholder feedback on the needs being collected
  • Prioritization of the needs
  • ConOps to System Requirements Mapping (generic)

Requirements Collection and Development

  • Purpose of Requirements
  • Levels of Requirements
  • Understanding the different levels of requirements
  • Performance requirements
  • Conditions [e.g. environmental, reliability, and availability]
  • Environmental and Non-Functional requirements
  • System
  • Sub system
  • Component / task
  • Validation of Stakeholders Needs

Classification of the Requirements

  • Eight basic types
  • Differences between requirements for hardware, software, services
  • Functional
  • Non functional
  • Performance
  • Non-Requirements

Structure of a Well Formed Requirement

  • Definition
  • Capabilities
  • Conditions
  • Constraints
  • Operational Policies & Constraints
  • Technical and Policy Constraints
  • Properties
  • Interface
  • Human
  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Communications
  • Functional analysis – needs analysis, operational analysis, use cases
  • Design requirements analysis
  • States & Modes analysis
  • Workshop – States and modes analysis
  • Requirements Verfiication

Requirements Development and Major Stakeholder Expectations

  • Development of requirements
  • Description of the current environment
  • Stakeholders
  • Feedback to Stakeholders
  • Facilitation skills and techniques
  • Transforming Requirements into Requirements Specifications
  • How requirements specifications relate to requirements
  • Requirements Flowdown in Specifications
  • Specification Types and Formats
  • Types of requirements specification
  • Specification Writing
  • Review of requirements quality
  • Requirement structural template

Workshops/Exercise

  • Workshop 1
    • Examples of good and poor requirements (group project)
    • Requirements constructs
    • Group presentations and discussions
  • Workshop 2- Classifying requirements as functional or design
  • Workshop 3 – Writing a functionally oriented specification vs. a design oriented specification
    • Analysis of Conops document
    • Analysis of Requirements Development

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