Right Requirements, Right Now

Overview:
"Right Requirements, Right Now" gives you a process, techniques and templates to discover exactly what your customers need and want for their systems.

You’ll experience intensive hands-on workshops that give you the opportunity to apply the business analysis and requirements engineering concepts presented.

You’ll discover, specify and evaluate requirements for a significant system.

Description:
Being better at requirements means understanding that the automated products that you build become part of your users' work no matter what kind of work that is. It’s being able to appreciate, accommodate and improve the users' work by delivering products that fit seamlessly into the work.

This course gives you a useful requirements process… a way of finding the most appropriate product for your user's needs, and then building a specification that unambiguously and completely describes that product.

Being better at requirements means making use of the best specifications that have already been written. This course gives you a specification template, a distillation of many successful requirements projects that serves as the foundation for your next specification. The template, and its accompanying requirements shell, give you firm guidelines, suggestions and topics, for writing your own specifications.

Being better at requirements also means knowing how to find the precise requirements, and how to know whether the implementation exactly matches that requirement. The fit criteria used in this course allow you to attach a measurement to each requirement so that you and your customer have the same understanding of what is needed.

What will I learn?

At the end of this course, participants should be able to:
• Gather the correct requirements using a formal process
• Match their solution to precisely what the user needs
• Write a complete and unambiguous requirements specification

What topics are covered?

• Requirements Engineering Process
• Project Launch
• Gathering Requirements
• Functional Requirements
• Non-functional Requirements
• Constructing a Specification
• Quality Gates
• Prototyping and Scenarios
• Reviewing the Requirements Specification
• Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations

Speaker:
Scott Stribrny is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Enterprise Risk Management & Governance practice and a leading figure in the world of process improvement. He is currently advising on techniques for effective product requirement specification and risk management. Mr. Stribrny advises companies on how to adapt modern software development techniques to fit specific projects and how to effectively transfer new technologies to the system developers within the organization.

Mr. Stribrny possesses 28 years of diverse experience. He has designed and built real-time mission critical software and has led successful multi-year, multimillion-dollar development programs. His accumulated management experience ranges from growth companies to Fortune 50 conglomerates in many industries, including systems development, telecommunications, financial, insurance, information services, and manufacturing.

Mr. Stribrny is the former leader of the Chicago Software Process Improvement Network, a 1200-member organization devoted to the advancement of the process improvement practice, and was an organizer of the 1998 Software Engineering Process Group conference. He is an active member of the American Society for Quality, Chicago Quality Assurance Association, IEEE, Organization Development Institute, and the Technology Executive Roundtable. He is also a member of the Executive's Club of Chicago, recently named one of the three most prestigious business forums in the US.

Mr. Stribrny is the Cofounder, President, and Managing Director of Group Atlantic, Inc., a consulting firm that has advised private, commercial, and governmental organizations on successful strategy development and operations improvement since 1992. His current management interests include change management, new paradigms for organizational design, and technology-based competitive strategy.

Here's what people are saying:

“Scott has provided CCC a lot of value over many years. While his company provides coverage over the whole development process, the one area we've used him is in the business analysis processes, the process by which one develops business requirements. His company Group Atlantic has a number of very good sessions that CCC Information Services Inc, has taken advantage's of, among them Right Requirements Right Now, is one of the best. Thus Scott has helped CCC develop good business systems analysis processes and he has also served as a great sounding board for thinking processes through and coming up with evolving best practices for our development processes. I strongly recommend Scott to anyone considering improving their business systems analysts skill sets as well as their overall development processes.”
~Carlos Navarro, Vice President, CCC Information Services

“I used Scott to deliver courses and consulting on requirements management. His methods helped with a significant transformation and positive results. The values achieved included: 1) improved communications between business development and product engineering, 2) faster prioritization of product release planning, and 3) less rework in defining requirements. I have confidence that Scott delivers what he promises.”
~ Robert W. Ferguson, Manager Engineering Process Group, 3Com

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