Live Webinar October 21st, 2021 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

This webinar answers the question, “How detailed should detailed requirements be?” The good news is that there should not be a lot of detailed requirement statements.

The better news is that there are generic structures that can be utilized for recording requirement details – those structures supported by spreadsheets or extended requirements management tools.

This webinar will cover topics such as:

• Capturing capability-specific NFR operational detail
• The importance of detailed mock-ups for a UI or Report capability
• Business-friendly Data Hierarchy Diagrams
• Capturing requirement detail in structures rather than text
• How to organize element-level detail within a meaningful business group

Presenter: Dan Tasker (LinkedIn profile) Former proprietor of The UML Cafe,  retired after working and consulting in the IT industry for the past 48 years. He spent the first 10 years working as a developer (called ‘programmer’ back then) in the United States and Canada.  The remainder of his career was spent as a business analyst, in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. He continues to be passionate about quality requirements and helping business analysts produce them.

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Minimum Detail Requirements: Maximum Requirement Detail

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Online Webinar  – Recorded  August 9th, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Requirements elicitation is the process of seeking, uncovering, acquiring, and elaborating requirements for business systems. It is generally understood that requirements are elicited rather than just captured or collected.

There are discovery, emergence, and development elements to the elicitation process. Requirements elicitation consists of a variety of techniques, approaches, and tools.

This webinar shares 10 steps to effective requirements elicitation, guiding business analysts to deliver successful results.

Requirements elicitation is all about learning and understanding the needs of users and project sponsors with the ultimate aim of communicating these needs to the system developers.

Learning objectives include:

• Understand the application domain
• Identify the sources of requirements and analyze the stakeholders
• Select the techniques, approaches, and tools to use
• Prepare to use the selected elicitation techniques
• Document your approach and create a “strawman” to generate the right conversation
• Send input material to participants in advance with clearly defined objectives for the specific elicitation events
• Elicit the requirements from stakeholders and other sources
• Assign a scribe for note taking and use a whiteboard or a smart screen to document the requirements
• Use a standardized requirements document template
• Continue to re-validate the requirements until they are clear and can be acted upon by those who read them – business stakeholders AND implementers

Presenter: Terrell Smith (LinkedIn profile), MPA, PMP, CBAP With over 25 years of experience in a wide range of project management and business analysis assignments, he brings concepts to life in a practical and easy to apply manner. Terrell has assisted clients in the development of project management methodologies, risk assessments, quality management, agile methods, problem solving, rescuing troubled projects, implementing business analysis best practices, and team building.

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10 Steps To Effective Requirements Elicitation

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Live Webinar April 28th, 2020 11:00 am – 11:30 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training .5 Hour  .5 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc (CAI) The Great IT Professional
(Rep 2733) (Rebranded From ITMPI)

In this webinar Neil Potter outlines six immediately usable tips for elicing and defining software requirements.

Presenter:  Neil Potter (LinkedIn profile) is co-founder of The Process Group, a company formed in 1990 that consults on leadership challenges, software engineering, process improvement, Agile/Scrum, CMMI, and project management. With 28 + years of experience in software and process engineering, Neil has c0-authoredthe definitive process guides: Making Process Improvement Work for Service Organizations: A Concise Action Guide and Making Process Improvement Work: A Concise Action Guide for Software Managers and Practitioners. Neil is also a is a Certified Scrum Master, CMMI-Institute certified lead appraiser for SCAMPI appraisals, CMMI instructor (development & services) and Six Sigma Greenbelt. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Essex (UK)

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Six Immediately Usable Tips For
Eliciting & Defining Software Requirements

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Online Webinar – Recorded – September 15th, 2017
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP1811)

PDU Of The Day has published THOUSANDS of Professional Development Opportunities since our launch January 1st 2011.

These articles reflect the interests of Project Managers, Business Analysts, and agile professionals from over 150 countries.

In the last two weeks of 2019, we are publishing some  of our readers & editors favorite recorded opportunities, as a special treat for our readers!

Each of these webinars is available online!

Requirements are the key aspects to successful projects and the foundational concept of where business analysts can bring value to an organization.

When done with rigor and discipline, requirements keep projects on scope, validate testing efforts and ensure alignment with overall organizational strategies while ensuring value continues to be delivered.

However, managing requirements well in our constantly changing and dynamic environments is the challenge every project manager, business analyst, product owner and subject matter expert today faces regardless if they are novice level and entering the analyst field or seasoned professionals managing complex environments.

In this session Jamie Champagne will walk through practical applications of requirements analysis & design and managing requirements in the ‘real world’ – where strict processes and templates may not always be followed (or even created), learn tips and tricks to help keep efforts on track and moving in a positive direction even when you’re not the leader or person in charge (or even get the title of Business Analyst of Requirements Manager) and while having some fun (didn’t know requirements were that exciting, did you…?) !

Topics to be covered during this session are planning for requirements elicitation, elicitation techniques, traceability, testing plans, validation, approvals, tracking and even reuse.

As well as there will be room for questions to bring up your own situations and challenges you face in your environments today.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Understand the multiple facets of requirements
• Learn techniques for eliciting and managing requirements
• Gain tips and tricks to immediately apply to requirements in your own work

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Jamie Champagne (LinkedIn profile) Mana’olana International, LLC is a  champion of process improvement and innovation, & enjoys culture change challenges that utilize her strong background in business analysis, project management, knowledge management and information technology.  She worked as a senior IT business analyst with The Queen’s Health System in Hawaii, &  currently sits as the Publicity Director for PMI Honolulu Hawaii Chapter and the President of the Hawaii IIBA Chapter.

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The Who, What, When, Where, Why Of Requirements!

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Online Webinar  – Recorded August 14, 2019
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Requirements are a key driver for any project and there is a direct relationship between the accuracy of requirements and the outcome of a project.

In many cases there is a direct link between scope and requirements, hence requirement definition impacts project scope.  Every project benefits by having a well-defined project scope that helps define boundaries for the project, the primary outcome/goal/deliverable to be achieved and success metrics (what does “done” look like”)

In this session  David Angelow (LinkedIn profile) will discuss how Design Sprint methods can be used to help project managers and teams at-large ensure alignment between current problem/challenge, scope of work and requirements for the project overall.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the design sprint process and major outcomes resulting from completing a successful sprint.
• Understand risks associated with requirements definition and risk mitigation actions
• Understand how to identify stakeholders to engage in design sprint process
• Understand how design sprints can be used to generate and validate project requirements
• Understand how to manage team dynamics during the design sprint process

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Killer Requirements Generation Using Design Sprints

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Online Webinar  – Recorded  August 9th, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Requirements elicitation is the process of seeking, uncovering, acquiring, and elaborating requirements for business systems. It is generally understood that requirements are elicited rather than just captured or collected.

There are discovery, emergence, and development elements to the elicitation process. Requirements elicitation consists of a variety of techniques, approaches, and tools.

This webinar shares 10 steps to effective requirements elicitation, guiding business analysts to deliver successful results.

Requirements elicitation is all about learning and understanding the needs of users and project sponsors with the ultimate aim of communicating these needs to the system developers.

Learning objectives include:

• Understand the application domain
• Identify the sources of requirements and analyze the stakeholders
• Select the techniques, approaches, and tools to use
• Prepare to use the selected elicitation techniques
• Document your approach and create a “strawman” to generate the right conversation
• Send input material to participants in advance with clearly defined objectives for the specific elicitation events
• Elicit the requirements from stakeholders and other sources
• Assign a scribe for note taking and use a whiteboard or a smart screen to document the requirements
• Use a standardized requirements document template
• Continue to re-validate the requirements until they are clear and can be acted upon by those who read them – business stakeholders AND implementers

Presenter: Terrell Smith (LinkedIn profile), MPA, PMP, CBAP With over 25 years of experience in a wide range of project management and business analysis assignments, he brings concepts to life in a practical and easy to apply manner. Terrell has assisted clients in the development of project management methodologies, risk assessments, quality management, agile methods, problem solving, rescuing troubled projects, implementing business analysis best practices, and team building.

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10 Steps To Effective Requirements Elicitation

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