It is well known that improper requirements are a major cause of project failure, irrespective of size and domain of the project. Studies show that failure to identify and manage requirements accounts for approximately that 60-75% of all defects encountered in a project. Also, requirement defects would cost about 100 times as much to correct if identified in an operational system.

This one-day course is designed to understand how to gather proper ‘requirements’ for a project and to manage them during project execution. The course begins with technically what the term ‘requirements’ mean and its associated issues. Differences and overlap between requirements development and requirements management is addressed.

The activities of requirements elicitation and the different techniques of elicitation are covered. Elements of requirements analysis and specification, together with the contents of a typical Requirements Specification document are discussed, followed by mechanism to manage changes to requirements and requirements traceability.

• Understand the term ‘requirements’ technically
• Familiarize with requirements development and management
• Learn the techniques of requirements elicitation
• Understand details of requirements analysis and requirements specification
• Learn the requirements change management process and traceability

The following topics would be covered in the one day workshop with exercises and case study to understand the concepts.

Introduction

Requirements Engineering and Issues

• Desired requirement characteristics
• Issues in requirements engineering

Requirement Development vis-à-vis Management

Requirement Gathering and Elicitation
Activities in requirements gathering
Requirement elicitation techniques, such as
• Interviewing and questionnaires
• Requirements workshops
• Brain Storming and idea reduction
• Storyboards
• Use Cases
Requirements elicitation guidelines

Requirement Analysis

• Requirement Analysis
• Requirement Specification
• Contents of Requirement Specification document

Managing Changes and Traceability

• Handling requirement changes
• Requirement traceability

Review and conclusion