Effective Business Requirements Training Course
Many of the problems encountered in business information systems implementations are the direct result of shortcomings in the processes and practices used to gather, understand, document, confirm and manage the requirements for the system.
This course is intended for those who want to enhance their current business analysis knowledge, cut through the jargon, and understanding how to remove many of these obstacles. The course focuses on teaching the participants some key techniques and methods of Requirements Engineering by highlighting the importance of the BA taking ownership of the requirements from generation through to validation and requirements management.
What's The Benefit?
Industry studies around the world suggest that five out of every six software projects fail or are "challenged" - over time and/or over budget. Three major factors appear consistently as reasons for this lack of success:
- Poorly defined requirements
- Poor management of changes to requirements
- Insufficient customer or user involvement in defining and managing requirements.
If business analysts don't provide detailed business and software requirements, then the programmers will invent them. But the decisions that software developers make are often different from the decisions a subject matter expert would make under the same circumstances. Who should be defining your business: the people who work in it, or programmers?
There can be up to a 200:1 payoff in ensuring that requirements are defined completely, correctly, precisely, consistently, and unambiguously - and agreed by all stakeholders prior to system implementation - compared with waiting until the "maintenance" phase to get things right.
The techniques and tools conveyed in this course have been shown to result in time and cost savings of up to 50% and a return on investment of up to 1200% in real-world projects.
This course is endorsed by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA™). It provides material and skills relevant to three Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK™) knowledge areas.
"This is a well run course that directs your thought processes and concepts to gain understanding."
Craig Stirling, Ministry of Fisheries
Training Courses in Melbourne Australia
The Effective Business Requirements training course will run in Melbourne Australia on the following dates: 25 October 2010, 28 March 2011, 20 June 2011, 26 October 2011.
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