Lean Business Analysis to Elicit Requirements

Course details

7 Ways for Kick Starting Agile Development

Getting the right business and stakeholder requirements for software development is arguably the most challenging step in software development. Nearly every study over the past 40 years has pinpointed missing and misunderstood IT requirements as the primary cause of IT project failures and overruns. Agile has significantly increased the potential for success but still suffers from 30% - 40% failure rates. The importance of early requirements  definition such as features, or User Stories cannot be overstated. The requirements you identify, discover, elicit, or gather are the foundation for the remainder of ALL of the work on the product or project.

This course presents 7 requirements definition techniques for getting IT requirements from product stakeholders. My co-author, Angela, and I have used these techniques on hundreds of IT projects around the globe and we know the value each provides. Every presented technique will greatly improve your ability to elicit effective features and/or requirements which is the ultimate challenge.

In this course, you will learn how to help the business community discover business needs that form the basis for a product backlog or Feature List. It presents specific business analysis techniques for identifying stakeholders, analyzing relevant business problems, helping stakeholders discover what they need and want the solution to deliver, and a set of key questions you need answered to initiate and manage the process. Applying these techniques will significantly improve your initial Product Backlog, Feature List, or Requirements Document.

We design our courses with a mix of "talking-head" instructor videos augmented with "Intellimated" visual aids proven to improve comprehension and increase retention.