Archive for May, 2010

Requirements Planning with RAMP

Monday, May 24th, 2010

The planning phase of RAMP (Requirements Analysis and Management Process) sets the stage for requirements work. You collect some initial information to help scope the effort, and then you  develop a plan for eliciting, specifying, and verifying requirements with project stakeholders. In some companies, all of the requirements work is completed at the beginning of the project and signed off, following a traditional or modified waterfall approach. In other companies, requirements work is performed in a series of feature-driven iterations using lean or agile development methods. You do the same tasks with either approach. The difference is primarily in when you perform your requirements work, not how you perform it. In either case, you still need to do some amount of requirements planning at the beginning of the project.

In this webinar you will learn how to:
• Define the high-level goals and business requirements for the project
• Identify the application end users and other stakeholders for the project
• Identify business processes to be impacted or transformed in the project
• Define the end-user capabilities required for each process identified
• Determine business priorities and order capabilities to be implemented

The Ravenflow RAMP Methodology describes a business-driven, best practices approach to planning, eliciting, specifying, validating and managing requirements for maximum project success. Bringing together proven business process and use case analysis techniques, the methodology enables rapid definition of essential business requirements by modeling and analyzing the processes where the solution will be used. Required capabilities are mapped from their parent business processes, then broken down into increasing levels of detail until the entire project scope has been specified. This not only ensures the requirements fully reflect business needs, but contain the detail necessary for successful implementation by the development team.

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Effective Requirements Elicitation Techniques

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Elicitation is the unique discovery process of gathering early stakeholder concepts and ideas. Elicitation requires a special skill set to invoke the responses required to produce a quality business specification document. Whether your organization fits traditional, iterative, or agile development approaches, this webinar focuses on developing good facilitation skills.

In this webinar,  we will discuss how  to:

• Improve facilitation, elicitation, and validation techniques
• Overcome reluctance to lead/facilitate elicitation sessions
• Recognize and develop essential elicitation traits and skills that include:
◦ Curiosity
◦ Fearlessness
◦ Questioning mind
◦ Attention to detail

Who Should Attend?

Business analysts, consultants, project managers, and anyone who is responsible for gathering business and user requirements.

Topics:

•Effective elicitation sessions
•Requirements definition process
•Critical elicitation skills
•Elicitation and validation preparation
•Elicitation techniques and pitfalls
•Gap analysis
•Scope/impact analysis
•Practice elicitation session
•Becoming proficient at elicitation/validation
•Reviewing results (web and documentation)

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Bridging Business Requirements to IBM DOORS

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

How To Effectively Apply Use Cases in IBM Rational DOORS

Organizations are increasing their adoption of Use Cases for specifying Business Requirements. IBM Rational DOORS, the leading Requirements Management software, offers no intrinsic support for Use Cases. How do we bridge the gap between use case activities and formal requirements management?

Join us for this webinar to learn:

* What exactly are Use Cases and what are that advantages of using them?
* How to visualize Use Cases to increase requirements quality
* How Use Cases can influence stakeholder validation
* How to structure Use Cases for effective IBM Rational DOORS implementations

This webinar includes a demonstration of Ravenflow’s award-winning RAVEN software for visual requirements definition.

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