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Requirements Leadership Forum – Webinar Seminar Series
eDev Technologies presents a series of Educational Webinars for the BA community via the Requirements Leadership Forum. These sessions will feature leading Thought Leaders, Authors and Evangelists who’s many years experience will prove invaluable to all who attend.
1- The Evolution of Scope Management- Fresh Techniques in Stakeholder Management
Speaker Tim Joshi is the founder and innovation leader for Synovia Inc., a management consulting firm specializing in business performance improvement, business analysis, and strategic planning.
For Project Managers (or senior Business Analysts) who currently are or aspire to lead projects in complex, politically charged environments. This webinar provides professionals with a look at scope management from a stakeholder management perspective and sheds light on why past approaches to scope management have high failure rates. By viewing projects as organizational performance improvement initiatives that require high degrees of collaboration between stakeholders, Tim Joshi dissects the anatomy of success and failures. The session exposes the key challenges in current approaches to scope definition and subsequent management of scope. From this understanding Tim reviews techniques that are producing the very best scope management results in the industry.
You will learn:
1- The root cause of scope management failures
2- Gap areas with current approaches
3- Characteristics of techniques that are producing top quartile results
Date: July 8, 2010
2- Capturing Data Requirements
Greg Bhatia: Professional Business Analyst, Mentor and Principal for MCOM Training
Greg will talk about how often Data Requirements are overlooked in large projects and the associated impacts, including lower adoption rates, limited scalability and diminished project ROI as well as some best practices such as capturing data requirements proactively and making Business Intelligence a key long term goal in your data discovery process.
You will learn:
1- The value of doing data discovery early on in a project and ensuring that the data supports both short term and long term (BI) goals.
2- The importance of documenting data requirements for dual audiences (Business and technical)
3- Common pitfalls in large scale data dependent projects and how to mitigate these risk
4- The important questions to ask during data discovery to make sure that the data you capture supports the business requirements.
Date: June 23, 2010
3-Business Requirements as a Central Theme of Enterprise Architecture
Bruce Miner : TOGAF 9 certified, Master Certified IT Architect by the Open Group
Bruce Miner will discuss the importance of a solid foundation of business requirements to the enterprise architecture practice. This involves business requirements as expressed as strategic direction, long term and short term business objectives, business process details and key performance metrics. The importance of understanding implicit requirements in terms of regulatory constraints, integrity considerations, availability and security from a business perspective will also be explored as the impact on a final architecture can be significant.
You will learn:
1- A high level view of the enterprise architecture lifecycle.
2- The central theme of requirements in the enterprise architecture lifecycle.
3- The critical elements of being current, consistent and communicated.
4- Early implicit requirements gathering from a business perspective.
5- Business objective prioritization as a key to architecture decision points.
Date: June 9th 2010
Time: 1 pm — 2pm EDT
4- Best Practices to address top 5 requirements project issues
Dr. Ralph Young, Requirements Evangelist and Author of Effective Requirements Practices (Addison-Wesley, 2001), The Requirements Engineering Handbook (Artech House, 2005), Project Requirements: A Guide to Best Practices(Management Concepts, 2006), and How to Save a Failing Project: Chaos to Control (Management Concepts, 2009)
Dr. Young will address the fundamental importance of requirements in providing a basis for all of the follow-on work that is performed on a project and how to apply industry experience and best practices to achieve organizational and project improvement. Key among the best practices is the compelling need to take the time and effort to figure out what the real requirements are before starting other technical work. Dr. Young has stated that this incorporating this best practice in the project approach is prerequisite to overcoming the root cause of extensive project failures (more than half of all projects). Further, industry experience is that the amount of rework required on a typical project averages 45%. Given this industry experience, what should we do to enhance our project approach and improve the chances that our project will be successful?
You will learn:
1- How to implement an organizational improvement approach
2- How to improve project start-up
3- Why and how to identify what Dr. Young refers to as “the real requirements”
4- How to improve business analysis
5- How to establish an attitude and habit of continuous improvement
Date: May 26th 2010
Time: 1pm – 2pm EDT
5- Comprehensive & Robust Requirements Specification Process (CRRSP)
Barbara Davis, CEO of E2Consulting and the mastermind behind CRRSP
Barbara will discuss Comprehensive & Robust Requirements Specification Process (CRRSP) as one of the first true requirements methodologies. Where other sets of deliverables simply derive requirements deliverables as they relate to the overall project methodology, CRRSP provides a clear set of tasks and deliverables for requirements that can be adapted to different project methodologies. Barbara will discuss how CRRSP impacts the Organization, including how it turns requirements into a revenue generator, and how E2Consulting implements CRRSP, including requirements validation.
You will learn:
1- CRRSP overview (including how and why it is different)
2- How CRRSP can be added to any project at any point during the lifecycle to add value
3- Causes of requirements issues
4- How to assess requirements for ambiguities
5- How inteGREAT supports the CRRSP methodology
Date: May 12th 2010
Time: 1pm - 2pm EDT
6- Discovering requirements in simple steps
Ian Alexander, Principal of Scenario Plus Ltd and lead author of Discovering Requirements (Wiley, 2009)
Ian will speak about how to discover requirements in simple steps. The talk will follow the plan of the book, treating requirements knowledge as 10 different elements. These elements include familiar items like Stakeholders, Goals, Context, Scenarios, as well as some like Rationale and Measurements that should perhaps be better known than they are. The talk shows that these pieces of knowledge fit together and may all be needed to provide an effective understanding of the Requirements. We will briefly demonstrate how inteGREAT supports the 10 different elements of requirements knowledge.
You will learn about the need to:
1- Identify stakeholders
2- Define and analyze stakeholders’ goals
3- Analyze functional requirements using scenarios
4- Discover software qualities, interfaces, and other constraints
5- Define requirement attributes including rationale, measurements, and priorities
Date: April 21st 2010
Time: 11am – 12pm EDT
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