GSAtrain

​Despite our best efforts to deploy good project management methods, IT projects continue to struggle to meet the needs of stakeholders.  In fact, the data show that our IT project failures typically aren’t created by bad hardware, bad software, lack of resources, budget over-runs, and schedule complications.  IT projects fail most often because of requirements problems.  And though many IT organizations have adopted PMBOK® Guide based project management processes, they don’t have solid requirements management processes.

Fortunately, a standard for requirements management has been promulgated and is continuing to be refined.  That standard is detailed in the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge, the BABOK™, which has been crafted by the International Association of Business Analysts (IIBA™).
This workshop, which can be delivered in a one-day overview or a two-day or three-day more-detailed format, is designed to provide a set of tools for IT project managers or those engaged in the requirements process that will allow them to deliver more successful projects.  It provides techniques for planning the requirements effort, eliciting user and supplementary requirements from stakeholders, analyzing requirements for accuracy and completeness, and ensuring that the solution contains the expected requirements.  It addresses the “hard skills” of requirements management and the “soft skills” that are necessary for managing the extensive conflict implicit in requirements elicitation and management and the expectations of stakeholders.
The workshop can also provide frameworks for building or improving organizational requirements management processes.​