Writing Business Requirements

This course is suitable for the following roles:

• Business Analysts
• System or Requirement Engineers
• Program and Project Managers
• Staff writing software, business or system requirements

After completing this course, candidates will be able to:

• Determine client needs
• Learn diverse dictation techniques to uncover real requirements
• Write complete requirements that are traceable and testable
• Write agile stories
• Understand the need for and how to write both functional and non-functional requirements
• Precisely define the scope of the project
• Get requirements quickly and incrementally
• Discover the right requirements

• Face-to-face or virtual trainer delivered three-day course
• Undertake individual and group led activities to support practical application
• Includes additional reference resources
• Students receive certificate of completion at the end of the course

• Scope –Setting the foundation (what, why and benefits)
• Stakeholder Communication –the people side of requirements
• Impact of writing bad requirements
• Characteristics of writing good requirements
• Requirement Rationale
• Requirement allocation and traceability
• Formatting Requirements
• Requirement Categories
• Requirement Validation
• 3 Cs Agile Stories