Scale Up Your Requirements Management Practices
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By proceeding without the Info-Tech approach, you can expect more:
- Costly rework and misdirected effort.
- Chaotic requirements practices and disappointed stakeholders.
- Wasted time, money, and effort.
By completing this initiative leveraging Info-Tech’s approach, you can expect to;
- Develop an outcome-based, common framework for requirements management that works across teams and methodologies.
- Standardize the management of evergreen requirements (requirements as an asset), not one-time change requirements.
- Align requirements management with product backlog management and product delivery processes.
- Develop a requirements management playbook that extends your solution delivery framework.
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
Book NowModule 1: Pre-Work
The Purpose
- Establish a baseline for your requirements management maturity.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Awareness of the current-state maturity
- Serves for planning workshop activities to address significant gaps or needs
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| 1.1 | Complete Requirements Management Maturity Assessment (Current State) |
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Module 2: Introduction and Current State
The Purpose
- Understand your current-state maturity with requirements and set a baseline from which to improve.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Defined project leveling
- Defined requirements management processes
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| 2.1 | Based on the current state, prioritize risks and challenges. |
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| 2.2 | Establish requirements management metrics. |
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| 2.3 | Identify your project levels. |
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| 2.4 | Define your high-level process. |
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Module 3: Define the Elicitation Process
The Purpose
- Identify stakeholders and define your elicitation processes.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Building a sample elicitation plan to guide requirements efforts
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Identify typical project stakeholders. |
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| 3.2 | Understand and document elicitation techniques by use case. |
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| 3.3 | Create a requirements management elicitation plan for a typical project. |
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Module 4: Analyze and Validate Requirements
The Purpose
- Effectively analyze and prioritize your requirements and validate them against stakeholder needs.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A defined standard for documentation and communication with stakeholders
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 4.1 | Analyze and categorize requirements. |
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| 4.2 | Prioritize requirements. |
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| 4.3 | Model requirements with use case diagrams or user stories. |
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| 4.4 | Validate your requirements. |
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| 4.5 | Create a requirements management communication plan for a typical project. |
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Module 5: Changes, Requirements, and Backlogs
The Purpose
- Establish a framework for managing changes to requirements and build a plan for continuous improvement.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A roadmap for continuously improving the maturity of your requirements management practices
- A completed Requirements Management BA Playbook
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| 5.1 | Develop a change control process. |
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| 5.2 | Build guidelines for escalating changes. |
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| 5.3 | Complete Requirements Management Maturity Assessment (target state). |
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| 5.4 | Define roadmap to target-state maturity. |
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| 5.5 | Identify and analyze stakeholders for communication plan. |
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| 5.6 | Create communication management plan. |
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| 5.7 | Build the action plan. |
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