Requirements Elicitation and Management: Good Practices
1 Day @ Bangalore
Date: Friday 6th June 08
Venue: The Chevron Hotel,
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"I am quite familiar with tools and methodologies to gather application requirements. I appreciate the importance of adhering to the project processes while gathering requirements and managing changes. But the real problem is in implementation! In spite of my good efforts, there are requirements errors like incorrect facts, omissions, ambiguity, inconsistency etc. It is very difficult to get sign-off on requirements and change requests from my customer. They are unwilling to pay for genuine changes even. This is leading to scope creep, cost overrun and customer dissatisfaction…."

Faculty Profiles:

 

Prabhakara H R

Out of over 20 years of IT experience, Prabhakara has utilized his last 9 years working with Infosys witnessing it grow from few millions to a billion dollar company. During his stay, Prabhakara has delivered software to global customers in various technologies through Infosys' Global Delivery Model (GDM). Apart from heading a delivery unit of over 300 people, Prabhakara has participated in Infosys' internal journey to achieve CMM level 4 and 5.

 

T. S. Krishnamurthy

Krishnamurthy was associated with Infosys for over 17 years. In his long innings with Infosys he had served in various capacities from Software Engineer, to Project Manager, to Divisional Manager while the organization grew from a strength of 50 to 33,000. As the head of a delivery unit of 600 people, he serviced several fortune 500 clients around the globe.

 

Harish Amur

Harish Amur has over 13 years of IT experience. He was associated with Infosys for nearly 11 years. Out of this, he spent over 6 years in various customer-facing roles, managing multi-million dollar programs for the company. Towards this he was conferred with an excellence award.

About the workshop

During requirements gathering, a lot of effort goes into getting the requirements right, rather than obtaining right requirements. This happens since the methodologies, processes and tools that we follow are too much skewed towards engineering aspects of requirements analysis and design. This bias makes one think that good processes result in good requirements. This potentially undermines the importance of managing the customer facing aspects like stake holder interests, project constraints, people issues etc. The role of Requirements Management (RM) is trivialized to managing changes and version control while it is supposed to start right from requirements elicitation stage itself.

 

Of course, these customer facing aspects are quite dynamic and vary from project to project.  They give rise to many challenges in eliciting good requirements and managing the change requests. These challenges can be well addressed, through efficient stake holder management and customization of requirements gathering approach, elicitation techniques and negotiating the changes based on the dynamic need of the project.

 

This workshop on Requirements Elicitation and Management focuses on experiential learning facilitated by a highly experienced team that shares the dynamics of requirements management and the good practices followed.  The workshop offers an opportunity to share your specific issues and learn from the collective experience of the trainers.

 

Who gets the maximum benefit out of this workshop?
A person working in software industry with over 4 years of experience involved in requirements gathering and project management. This workshop assumes that the candidates have knowledge of requirements analysis and design..

What is covered in this workshop?

1. Classification of requirements and the need

2. What is a good requirement

3. Role of stake holders, approach and elicitation techniques

4. Change management process

5. Importance and need for Change Control

6. Case studies and discussions 

Topic

Coverage

What is requirements elicitation and management all about? Why is it important?

Medium

What are the different types of requirements? How to identify and obtain them?

High

What are the characteristics of good requirements?

High

What are the challenges in obtaining good requirements? How to address them?

High

How to identify and manage stake holders' expectations?

High

How to select a right approach for requirements gathering?

High

How to choose a elicitation technique for a situation?

Medium

What are the issues faced during elicitation? How to address them?

High

What is change management? What are the drivers for change requests?

Medium

What is the process to handle requirements changes?

High

What are the challenges in controlling the change requests?

High

 

What is not covered in this workshop?

· Tools and their usage for requirements management

· Discussion on requirements analysis and design topics like engineering methodologies (Water fall, iterative etc.), requirements specification, DFD, ERD etc.

· Discussion on documentation structure, walking through a good requirements document etc.

Date: Fri 6th June 08 (9:00am - 5:30pm)

 

Fee Details:

Rs. 5000 + 12.36% Service Tax, Per Participant

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Note:

After registering to the workshop, participants will receive a web questionnaire. It is imperative to answer this for effective customization of the workshop.

Venue:
THE CHEVRON HOTEL (3 Star )

147, Infantry Road,

Bangalore – 560001

OPP : Police Commissioner Office

Ph: 080-22356000-05

www.thechevronhotel.com

 

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