CQAA February 2012 Program: 10 Principles of Smart Requirements Gathering

10 Principles of Smart Requirements Gathering
David Heidt

About the Topic

Today's conventional approaches to requirements gathering have real limits when it comes to giving technical engineers and QA professionals what they need to design and verify that solutions meet stakeholders’ needs. Additionally, the agile development movement and IT-centric methods for designing software solutions don't accurately represent how business processes, rules, events, knowledge and human to system interaction fit together. This results in an incomplete representation of a business solution’s behavior. This session walks through requirement techniques and tools that an organization needs to adopt to put their business analysis efforts on the track towards creating business solutions that can be verified against stakeholder needs.

Learning Objectives

• How to categorize requirements in a way that has meaning to engineers and testers
  
• What are the three tools to increase the quality and rigor of requirements deliverable
• Ten job-relevant business analysis principles for doing better requirements

About the Speaker

David is a Certified Business Analyst Professional and Certified Business Process Management Professional with expertise tailoring industry best practices and standards for practical skill building and use within organizations. As a faculty member at DePaul University and creator of DePaul's Business Analyst Certificate Program, he has authored a number of instructor-led and computer-based training courses for business process analysts. David is President of the Chicagoland Chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis and past VP of Finance for the Association of Business Process Management Professionals.

Location

DePaul University O’Hare Campus

8770 West Bryn Mawr Avenue
(Higgins Road and East River Road)
Room 208
Chicago, Il 60631-3782

Agenda

1:00-1:30 Sign-in & Networking (please do not arrive before 1:00 pm)
1:30-1:45 Welcome and CQAA Announcements
1:45-4:00 Presentation (15 minute break at 2:45)

Registration

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND THIS PROGRAM.

PLEASE REGISTER BY Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at www.cqaa.org. If you have any questions, please contact CQAA Program Director at programs@cqaa.org.