Thinktank Consulting

Description:

Recent studies indicate that only 32% of our projects can be considered successful, while 44% are challenged (i.e. grossly over the budget and/or late) and 24% are outright failures (i.e. cancelled by the customers before they are even completed). Further research shows that the lion’s share of this lack of success can be attributed to poor requirements elicitation, insufficient planning and inadequate project control.

This course will demonstrate to the participants how to perform these tasks properly and efficiently by teaching them skills, tools, techniques and economic principles that transcend various company structures, environments and project management philosophies.

Course Outline:

• Requirements, Users, Customers
• High Level Scope Elicitation on IT and Software Development Projects
• Detailed Requirements Elicitation on IT and Software Development Projects
• Documenting Requirements on IT and Software Development Projects
• Final Product Design
• Work Breakdown Structures
• Customer Walkthroughs, Technical Inspections and Peer Reviews
• Why Should You Manage Scope and Customer Expectations?

Target Audience:

• Experienced requirements analysts in all industries
• Experienced project managers
• Individuals who have been recently promoted to the project management positions
• Engineers, architects and the product managers who all had scope definition expertise for at least several centuries, but may benefit from 1) familiarizing themselves with the project management perspective on scope management and 2) learn some fresh new ideas from other fields, especially from software development
• All developers, architects and testers who are essential to the success of any technology project
• Technical people who have been recently promoted to the requirement analyst positions
• Project managers who work on projects and frequently have to assume requirements analyst responsibilities
• Managers and directors who want to better understand the challenges faces by requirements engineers and want to learn some universal skills
• Business representatives (e.g. sales, marketing and finance people) who frequently have to work with technical teams
• Professionals who frequently have to assume project management responsibilities

Related Courses:

• Advanced Practical Project Management
• Troubled Projects Recovery
• How to Write a Great Requirements Document