Eliciting Stakeholder Requirement and Eliciting Technical Requirements Training Workshop

Eliciting Stakeholder Requirement and Eliciting Technical Requirements Training Workshop

Eliciting Stakeholder Requirement and Eliciting Technical Requirements Training Workshop is a 3-day training course that provides details on how to elicit stakeholders and technical requirements.

These statements then need to be further clarified and translated into more engineering-oriented language in a set of stakeholder requirements to enable proper architecture definition and requirement activities.

Target Audience

• Technical professionals
• Project engineers
• Software engineers
• Design team personnel
• R&D personnel
• Business analyst
• All individuals who are involved in the processes of collecting and eliciting technical requirements in various projects

Learning Objectives

Upon the completion of this course, participants can:

• Analyze the validity of produced project requirements
• Identify relevant stakeholders and other sources of information for each technical requirement
• Create a framework for eliciting technical requirements
• Choose appropriate tools for technical requirements collection and determine the rationale for their selection
• Elicit thorough, accurate, and traceable requirements by applying different tools
• Gather a complete set of technical requirements based on the stakeholder goals and needs
• Conduct hard data collection
• Define the capability scope
• Apply best practices of data elicitation
• Manage the requirements throughout the project lifecycle
• Apply best practices of data elicitation

Day 1

Overview of Eliciting, Collecting and Developing Requirements

• Eliciting requirements definition
• Basics of eliciting requirements
• Definition of requirements
• Issues of elicitation
• Gathering and documenting requirements
• Agile requirements development
• Eliciting methods and techniques

Requirements Elicitation Problems

• Problems of scope
• Problems of understanding
• Problems of volatility

Elicitation Techniques

• Information gathering
• Requirements expression and analysis
• Verification and validation

Elicitation Methodology Frameworks

• Requirements elicitation process model
• Methodology
• Integration of techniques
• Criteria assessment

Eliciting Tools and Approaches

• Hard data gathering
• Interviews
• Questionnaire
• Group techniques
• Participant observation
• Ethnomethodology
• Knowledge elicitation techniques
• Traditional Elicitation Approaches

Class Activity

Workshop 1

• To elicit a set of clear and concise needs based a real project in the class
• Process Approach
• Activities of the Process
• Artifacts, Methods and Modeling Techniques
• Practical Considerations

Day 2

Hard Data Collection

• What is considered as hard data?
• Sampling methods
• Size of sampling
• Sampling process

Interviews

• Types of interview
• Advantages
• Drawbacks
• Concerns
• Some useful tips

Questionnaires

• Advantages
• Disadvantages
• Concerns

Group Elicitation Approaches

• Categories
• Advantages
• Disadvantages
• Concerns

Joint/Rapid Application Development Principals

• Group dynamics
• Visual aids
• Organized, rational process
• WYSIWYG documentation method

Elicitation Best Practices

• Use your interpersonal skills
• Always think broadly
• Be prepared
• Determine and manage stakeholders
• Identify the root cause of the problem
• Define the capability scope
• Extract and elicit requirements from all the available sources
• Categorize the type of documents and requirements
• Model the requirements for validation
• Rank the requirements based on their importance
• Obtain final agreement from contributing stakeholders
• Document the requirements for final approval

Class Activity

Workshop 2: Requirements elicitation workshop to discover requirements

• How to keep workshop attendees engaged and focused on the business needs
• What you need to do before, during, and after your workshop to make it successful
• Practice effective requirements workshops are made up of five phases:
  • Planning
  • Opening
  • Execution
  • Closing
  • Follow up

Day 3

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 Flow down in Specifications
• Specification Types and Formats
• Types of requirements specification
• Specification Writing
• Review of requirements quality
• Requirement structural template

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)

Technical 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
• 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
• Structure of a Well-Formed Requirement

Class Activity

Workshop 3

• Discovering requirements
• Refining requirements
• Prioritizing requirements and
• Scoping requirements
• Examples of good and poor requirements (group project)
• Requirements constructs
• Classifying requirements as functional or design
• Writing a functionally oriented specification versus a design
• Group presentations and discussions