Requirements Management for Project Managers

Course overview

Stop scope creep! Analyzing and managing requirements are cornerstone activities for any successful project. Discover keys to identify, write, analyze, and manage requirements for your projects. Master proven requirements tools and techniques. Ensure that your requirements management process results in project success.

Prerequisites

• Formal project management training such as that available in the Project Management Fundamentals (HC577S) course plus other core project management courses

Audience

This course is intended for project managers interested in best practices that apply to diverse projects in multiple industries. It is especially suited for people seeking project management certification.

Course objectives

Learn how to:

• Create successful projects through effective requirements management
• Develop and use a proactive requirements definition process
• Transform stakeholder needs and expectations into requirements
• Use operational concepts to improve requirement quality
• Identify and manage interfaces between processes and stakeholders
• Prioritize, allocate, baseline, and trace requirements
• Employ validation and verification methods to ensure correctness
• Establish best practices in requirements management for your organization

Next steps

• Managing Multiple Projects (HE549S) or other advanced Project Management topics leading to recognition of your knowledge and skill by passing the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification appropriate to your country or region

Benefits to you

• Identify and manage stakeholder expectations
• Recognize and manage interfaces
• Write "good" requirements the first time
• Avoid scope creep
• Use validation and verification methods

Course outline

Key Concepts

• Describe the results of poor requirements
• Explain the link between scope, requirements, and successful projects
• Define progressive elaboration

Project Stakeholder Management

• Identify the stakeholder analysis process
• Assess stakeholder importance and influence
• Prepare a requirements documentation form

Develop Project Requirements

• Define and use a requirements traceability matrix
• Determine techniques to prioritize requirements
• Avoid common pitfalls in writing requirements

Analyze and Validate Requirements

• Decompose higher-level requirements
• Recognize types of derived requirements
• Prepare for a customer requirements review

Manage Change

• Explain the purpose of rigorous change management
• Determine the effect of additions, changes, and deletions
• Determine when it is necessary to re-baseline requirements

Acceptance and Approval

• Determine appropriate procedures for requirements management
• Overcome resistance to formal requirements management
• Ensure clarity of acceptance criteria