Project Management Training Catalog – Fundamentals of Scope and Requirements Online Training Series!
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Overview: This instructor-led course introduces participants to the tools and techniques necessary to develop well-understood project requirements. Participants are introduced to Displayed Thinking, use-cases, requirements interviews, requirements meetings, requirements documentation, and many other topics critical to the success of a complex project.
Series Taught By: Martin VanDerSchouw
Available CEUs for Course Series Completion: 21
Students can earn up to 21 CEUs for fully completing this course series. This information will be displayed on the certificate of completion.Learn More
Available CEUs for Course Series Completion: 21
Students can earn up to 21 CEUs for fully completing this course series. This information will be displayed on the certificate of completion.Learn More
Course Modules:
Module 01 – Effective Listening Skills for Requirements Definition
(Duration: 38 m)
- Workbook (Pdf)
- Effective Listening Skills for Requirements Definition
- Listening Is Good Business
- Listening vs. Hearing
- Causes for “Tune-Out”
- Communication Realities
- Listening Approaches
- Matching Listening Approaches
- To Be More Effective with Appreciative Listeners
- To Be More Effective with Empathic Listeners
- To Be More Effective with Comprehensive Listeners
- To Be More Effective with Discerning Listeners
- To Be More Effective with Evaluative Listeners
- The Function of Listening
- Remember…
- Review Quiz (Number of attempts allowed: Unlimited)
Module 02 – Stakeholders
(Duration: 13m)
- Workbook (Pdf)
- Stakeholders
- Who is a Stakeholder?
- Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
- The RACI Matrix
- Steps in Stakeholder Management
- Key Stakeholder Questions
- IIBA BOK Stakeholder Questions
- Stakeholder Prioritization
- Review Quiz (Number of attempts allowed: Unlimited)
Module 03 – Scope Definition
(Duration: 46 m)
- Workbook (Pdf)
- Scope Definition
- Definitions
- The Product vs. Project Scope:
- IIBA Knowledge Areas
- Relationships Between Areas
- Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
- Requirements Elicitation
- Requirements Mgmt. & Communication
- Enterprise Analysis
- Requirements Analysis
- Solution Assessment & Validation
- Underlying Competencies
- Project Boundaries
- The PMI Scope Management Framework
- Real World Best Practice
- Scope Definition Process
- Project Sponsor Issues Charter
- Charter Environmental Factors to Consider
- The Project Data Sheet (PDS)
- Getting at Requirements
- Can You Deliver Too Much?
- Scope Creep
- Review Quiz (Number of attempts allowed: Unlimited)
Module 04 – Creating Effective Work Breakdown Structures
(Duration: 34m)
- Workbook (Pdf)
- Creating Effective Work Breakdown Structures
- Scope Definition
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Types of WBS Elements
- Components of the WBS
- Code of Accounts
- WBS Dictionary
- Managing Change
- The What and The How
- Work Breakdown Structure Example
- Answer Four Key Questions:
- The Fourth Question…
- What’s Wrong with this WBS?
- Why Use a WBS?
- Introduction to Displayed Thinking
- Review Quiz (Number of attempts allowed: Unlimited)
Module 05 – Requirements Basics
(Duration: 23 m)
- Workbook (Pdf)
- Requirements Basics
- Definitions
- What is a Requirement?
- IIBA BOK Requirements
- Functional vs. Non-Functional
- What Makes A Good Requirement?
- Examples of Poor Requirements
- Business Requirements & System Requirements
- Requirements Written Individually
- Key Requirement Tests
- The Problem Pyramid
- Review Quiz (Number of attempts allowed: Unlimited)
Module 06 – Use Cases
(Duration: 11m)
- Workbook (Pdf)
- Use Cases
- Overview
- Why Create Use Cases?
- High Level Use Case
- Process for Developing a Use Case
- Keys to Effective Use Cases
- High Level Use Case: Part 1
- High Level Use Case: Part 2
- High Level Use Case: Part 3 High Level Use Case: Part 4
- Use Case Checklist
- Review Quiz (Number of attempts allowed: Unlimited)
Module 07 – Development Methodologies
(Duration: 57 m)
- Workbook (Pdf)
- Development Methodologies
- Developmental Methodologies Terminology
- Major Families of Methodologies
- The Volere Process
- Volere Requirements Process
- Guidelines to Success with RUP
- Rational Unified Process
- Inception Phase
- Elaboration Phase
- Construction Phase
- Transition Phase
- Key Modeling Elements of the RUP
- Guidelines to Success with RUP (2)
- The Basics
- The Scrum Roles
- The Scrum Flow
- The Scrum Tool
- The Scrum Skeleton
- Review Quiz (Number of attempts allowed: Unlimited)
Module 08 – Testable Requirements
(Duration: 16m)
- Workbook (Pdf)
- Testable Requirements
- Questions to Ask When Testing
- Standard Testing Activities
- Requirements Based Testing (RBT)
- RBT Strategy
- RBT 12-Step Process
- Ambiguity Review
- Example
- Types of Testing
- Test Cases
- Review Quiz (Number of attempts allowed: Unlimited)
Module 09 – The Software Requirements Specification (SRS)
(Duration: 57 m)
- Workbook (Pdf)
- The Software Requirements Specification (SRS)
- The SRS Defined
- SRS Goals
- The SRS Components
- The SRS – Getting Started
- 10 Quality Characteristics Of An SRS
- Quality Measures Related To Individual SRS
- Continuances
- Directives
- Options
- Weak Phrases
- Review Quiz (Number of attempts allowed: Unlimited)
Module 10 – Business Domain Modeling
(Duration: 15m)
- Workbook (Pdf)
- Business Domain Modeling
- BDM Defined
- BDM Roles
- BDM Artifacts
- BDM Example: Model
- BDM Example
- BDM Example DB Schema
- Why is a Domain Model Needed?
- BDM Example: Database Tables
- BDM Example (2)
- Review Quiz (Number of attempts allowed: Unlimited)
Module 11 – Other Advanced Tools
(Duration: 40 m)
- Workbook (Pdf)
- Other Advanced Tools
- Key Techniques
- Definitions
- The Spectrum Diagram
- Activity Diagram
- Block/Swimlane Workflow Diagram
- Business Process Diagram (BPD)
- Cause & Effect Diagram
- Decision Tree Analysis
- Class Diagrams
- Class Diagrams – Key Terms
- Class Diagram: Basic
- Class Diagram: Complicated
- Data Flow Diagrams (DFD)
- Data Flow Diagram – Key Terms
- FURPS+
- Course Closure
- Review Quiz (Number of attempts allowed: Unlimited)
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- 11 downloadable Pdf Workbooks
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- Access on mobile and Desktop
- Certificate of Completion
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Students are provided access to professional development activity files which allow for an individual to test out course theories and apply the knowledge they earned from the course.Review Quizzes
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