Requirements Management in IT Projects - Course Content

1. Overview of Project Management

This unit briefly reviews the basic foundations of project management and discusses the development and significance of project baselines.

2. Building a Winning Team

Stakeholder Management
A brief examination of stakeholder management and its critical relationship to requirements management.

Leadership
A review of the essential elements of leadership in the project environment and the importance of building of a high-performance team.

3. Requirements Management Plan

A multi-step model covering identification and elaboration of requirements, requirements change management, requirements testing and closing down of requirements.

4. Requirements Identification

Requirements flow is outlined and we highlight the differences between functional, performance and general requirements. Sources of requirements are identified and examples provided. An easy to use and pragmatic technique is used to ensure requirements are well formed at all levels.

5. Requirements Elaboration

This is the key unit in the workshop. It examines various techniques available to derive and model requirements, outlining the pros and cons of each.

6. Requirements Traceability

The importance of requirements traceability, both forwards and backwards is discussed and captured on a requirements management template. A number of techniques are taught to help in requirements prioritisation.

7. Prioritisation

A number of techniques are taught to help with requirements prioritisation. Change Management – The source of requirements change and a process to manage the changes using a variety of useful tools.

8. Base-Lining

A process to baseline the requirements and the requirement baseline’s relationship to the overall project baseline.

9. Close-Down

The process required to effectively close-down the requirements.