Workshop on

Business & Requirements Engineering

using Usecases

Dates: Fri 23rd, Sat 24th & Sun 25th July 2010 at Bangalore

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Overview:

A flag ship program from Summit which provides participants a complete understanding of the methods and techniques involved in translating a Business Problem to Software Product / Project Requirements. This includes techniques in Finding, Eliciting, documenting and managing requirements with a clear mapping to design and test models.
 

This course will help the participants in taking up IBM Certified Specialist for Rational Requirements Management w/Use Cases exams which would be useful for the role Analyst.


This program is indented at Product Analysts, Business Analysts, Product Managers, Tech Managers, Lead, Sr. Developers.

 

Recommended Prerequisite:
  • Participants (Specifically Analysts) could participate with some basic requirements concepts.
 

Course Objectives:
  • Identify Business Problem and formulate Business Requirements.
  • Translate Business Requirements to Software Requirements.
  • Apply requirements management techniques to define a clear statement of product requirements.
  • Capture and document requirements with use-case modeling.
  • Describe a documentation hierarchy and standards for defining levels of requirements for a product.
  • Use requirement attributes and traceability to help manage scope and change throughout product lifecycle.
  • Use requirements to drive ongoing design, test, and user documentation activities.

Intended Audience:
  • System Analysts, Business Analysts.
  • Project leads, Managers & designers.
  • Anyone needing an overview of the Business & Reqts. Engineering .


Artifacts developed during the workshop.
1. Business Model
  
a. Business Activity diagram.
   b. Business Scenario diagram.
   c. Business Object model.
2. System Model
  
d. System Usecase model.
   e. Vision, Stakeholder request.
f. Requirements Management Plan.

Deliverables
• Reqt Mgmt handbook containing all the slides discussed in the session.
• Reqt Mgmt Exercises book.
• Requisite Pro Handbook.
• Requisite Pro Exercises book

 

Faculty Profile: Sridhar D P

Trimmed up from legacy to contemporary business models, with a business experience of 13 yrs, satisfied stakeholders have expanded my portfolio from High Performance Consulting to field of Innovation as Metamorphic Futurist. I have effectively navigated in the following suite of interpositions Innovation Facilitator, Entrepreneur, Chief Mentor, Software Engineering Head, Re-Modeling Architect.

 

• Engaged with companies for landscape of assignments in the above mentioned suite of interpositions. The companies with whom I engaged are,

 

• IBM , Accenture, Ernest & Young India, Oracle Corporation

• Mahindra Satyam, Wipro, Tata Group, Mind Tree etc.

 

• Continuing Education Programs from IISc, IIM-B. Member of Tie, Ficci groups. Visiting Faculty of BITS Pilani

 

• Steered  International Business, Enabled to deliver noteworthy results in the corporate landscape

 

• Consistently received high praise and excellent ratings from clients that I have worked with.

• Academics

• Exec MBA from IIM B , Innovation & IP from IISc, Bangalore

• Engineering  in Computer Science


Have led more than 500+ Workshops on Business & Requirements Engineering, 500+ Workshops on UML, OOAD, MDA, Integrated Lifecycle Workshops etc.

 

Date: Fri 23rd, Sat 24th & Sun 25th July 2010

Time: 09:30am to 05:30pm

 

FEE DETAILS:

Rs. 7,500=00 + 10.3% Service Tax  for Per Participant

(*includes Lunch, Tea /Coffee.) Subject to availability of seats.

Terms & Conditions.

Registration is first come first serve basis.

 

REGISTRATION:

Confirm your seats by emailing to events@knowledgeworksindia.com. Download the Registration Form and send us back duly filled with payment.

 

Venue Details:

M/s KnowledgeWorks IT Consulting Pvt. Ltd.,

197, E-5, 2nd Floor, 8th 'B' Main,

27th Cross, Jayanagar 3rd Block,

Bangalore - 560011,

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Course Contents:
Day 1
• Session – A
Findings of Challenges in Business to IT - Forrester & Mc Kinsey
Findings of Problems in IT – A Standish group Survey
Key Findings of Trends in Outsourcing – Diamond Cluster Report.
Class Room discussion on Challenges, Symptoms of problem in Business and IT.
 
• Session – B
Symptoms and Mapping of the Root causes to Best Practices.
Requirements Engineering - A Road Map from Bashar Nuseibeh and Steve Easterbrook
Define requirements management.
Describe aspects of requirement quality.
Identify factors that contribute to project success and project failure.
Describe how requirements management increases the chances for project success.
 
• Session – C
Business Problem Analysis
Define As – Is Scenario
Problem Analysis Techniques
Cause & Effect Analysis , Value –Chain Analysis , Pareto – Analysis
Formulate Business Requirements
Brainstorm and evaluate multiple Business Solutions.
CBA Analysis
 
• Session – D
Business Engineering
Transition from As- is to To – be
Business engineering Process
Demonstration of Business Process realization using Activity, Scenario and Business Object models.
Moving from Business Model to System Model.
Draft IT Project Vision.
Walkthrough of White Paper from Business to system model using Business and IT Framework.
 
Day 2
• Session – E

Understand Stakeholder Needs.
Identify sources for needs/requirements
List problems in eliciting needs
Identify techniques to elicit needs/ requirements
Describe a requirements workshop
Practice brainstorming techniques
Describe techniques to conduct Usecase workshop
Describe difference between Storyboard and other formal techniques
Describe Interview Techniques and discuss differences with Questionnaires.
 
• Session – F
Draft Initial Stakeholder Needs also called Business Requirements.
Translate Stakeholder Needs to System Features.
Define Candidate Use Case Model
Outline Usecase Model.
Standards in Writing good, readable usecases.
Granularity of Usecase.
Scope Management.
Traceability Strategy.
Rules for Prioritizing Usecases in Engineering and Production Phase.
Walkthrough on Usecase Estimation techniques.
 
• Session – G
Draft Initial Stakeholder Needs also called Business Requirements.
Translate Stakeholder Needs to System Features.
Define Candidate Use Case Model
Outline Usecase Model.
Standards in Writing good, readable usecases.
Granularity of Usecase.
 
Day 3
• Session – H

Refine the System definition.
Define software requirements
Describe the Software Requirements Specification
Identify methods of specifying functional requirements
Detail the use cases
Use declarative requirements
Specify nonfunctional requirements.
 
• Session – I
Describe techniques for managing change
Use a requirements repository
Measure status and change periodically
Create requirements traceability
Follow a single channel for approval of requests
Use configuration management
Structure the use-case model
Create include, extend, and generalization relationships when appropriate.
 
• Session – J
Impact of Requirement on other disciplines.
Walkthrough of Usecases to Test Cases Mapping.
Summary of the entire Workshop followed with presentations.
 
• Session – H 
Requisite Pro tool Walkthrough.

 
Exercise
• Given a Problem document, Participants will develop Vision Statement, SRS Package which includes Use case Specifications, Use case Models, Supplementary Requirements.
• Walkthrough of a Requirements Management tool - Requisite Pro.
 
Case Study:
A Financial Trading company business case would be discussed through out the course from Business Modeling to System Modeling and various requirement artifacts would be generated.

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