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Requirements AnalysisA course/workshop presented over three days |
Introduction | Training Objective | Course Outline | Course Materials | Key Questions | Who Should Attend | About the Presenter | Course Schedule
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This course is recognised by Engineers Australia for CPD purposes (40 hours) |
Training Objective
The three-day Requirements Analysis module provides highly effective tools for both the capture of requirements, and for validation of those requirements, in any scenario involving the receipt of requirements from one or more stakeholders who have a need. A workshop approach is used extensively in this module, to maximise learning and practical application. Effectiveness of the techniques, collectively comprising a complete methodology, is independent of the domain of application, and independent of the specifics of the need. These techniques have been used with great success.
Course Outline
1. Why Emphasise Requirements
- Issues and terminology
- Lessons from real projects
- Requirements and the law
2. Requirements Within the System Life Cycle
- The origin of requirements
- Concept of the system boundary
- The modelling boundary
- The system engineering process
- Development of system architecture and detail design
- Requirements traceability
- Summary of terms relating to requirements
- Baselines and their use
- The waterfall life cycle paradigm
- Incremental acquisition/development
- Evolutionary acquisition/development
- Workshop - requirements engineering principles
- Common requirements pitfalls in the system life cycle
3. What are Requirements
- Definitions and views
- Relationship to Design
- Relationship to Baselines
4. Types of Requirements
- Why categorise requirements by type?
- Eight basic types
- Differences between requirements for hardware, software, services
- Non-Requirements
- Workshop - categorising requirements by type
- Other categories - design drivers, critical, global, priority, importance, stability
5. The Quality of Requirements
- Correctness
- Completeness
- Consistency
- Clarity
- Non-ambiguity
- Traceability
- Testability
- Singularity
- Feasibility
- Freedom from product/process mix
6. Requirements Analysis Techniques
- Primary, Secondary, Tertiary stakeholders
- Initial assessment and planning
- Measuring requirements quality
- Methods of engaging in requirements dialogue
- Context analysis
- Workshop - context analysis
- Design requirements analysis
- States & Modes analysis
- Workshop - States and modes analysis
- Requirements parsing
- Workshop - parsing analysis
- Functional analysis - needs analysis, operational analysis, use cases
- Workshop - functional analysis
- Rest of scenario analysis
- Optional Workshop - rest of scenario analysis
- Out of range analysis
- Optional Workshop - out of range analysis
- ERA Analysis
- Other constraints search
- Value analysis
- Verification requirements development
- Operational concept description
- Clean-Up
- Special issues of the human interface
- Supplementary methods and notations
- Common pitfalls in requirements analysis
7. Coping with the Real World
- What to do when the user "doesn't know"
- How to respond to "moving goalposts"
- Protecting yourself from the communication chasm
>8. Software Tool Support
- Tools supporting requirements analysis
- Tools supporting requirements management
- Examples of available tools
- Common pitfalls in using tools
9. Requirements Verification
- Requirements reviews
- Use of metrics
10. Management of Requirements Analysis
- Management issues
- Using and managing "TBDs"
- Designing a requirements codification scheme
- Managing resolution of requirements issues
- Defining reviews and reports
- Risk management applied to the requirements phase
- Risk driven specifications
11. Summary and Conclusion
Training Materials
For each seminar attended, you will be provided with:
- comprehensive seminar notes
- a workbook containing workshop exercises
- workshop model solutions
- checklists, forms and charts which you can use immediately in your projects
- a CD-Rom with extensive documents and resources
- access to PPI's Systems Engineering Goldmine
Key Questions
- Why do requirements errors cost more to correct than any other class of error?
- How can I best deal with requirements which the user can express only in vague terms?
- Do requirements which are not "in the contract" have any effect in a contractual scenario?
- How can you best unscramble a poor Request for Tender or requirements specification?
- How can you efficiently use requirements analysis to help prepare not only the system specification, but also the major plans?
- How can I best live with "moving goal posts"?
- How can I cope with the inevitable "missing information" without losing control of technical baselines?
- What are the differences between functional and design specifications and when should each be used?
- Why is it necessary to deal with states and modes early?
- Why is the use of a requirements structural model the sure-fire path to producing strong requirements specifications?
Who Should Attend These Seminars/Workshops?
Requirements Analysis and Specification Writing is designed for acquirer, supplier and developer personnel who, in any capacity, deal with requirements.
About the Presenter - Mr. Robert Halligan, FIE Australia
Your presenter, Mr Robert Halligan, FIE (Aust), is Managing Director of Project Performance (Australia) Pty Limited. He was also founder of Technology Australia Pty
Limited, a consultancy company which received remarkable success in guiding its clients
to success in winning and performing on major defence and aerospace projects. Mr Halligan
has previously held senior project-related engineering and management positions with
Rockwell, Andrew Corporation and the Department of Defence (Australia). Mr Halligan has
honed his experience over twenty years in the engineering of large communications,
computing and electronic warfare systems... |  |
Course Schedule
| P007-248 09 Feb to 11 Feb 2009 | Sydney, Australia Stamford Grand North Ryde | Earlybird Fee: AUD1692.00 Standard Fee: AUD1880.00 | Download Brochure Download Regform | Enquire Online Register Online |
| P007-251 20 Apr to 22 Apr 2009 | Melbourne, Australia Mercure Hotel Melbourne | Earlybird Fee: AUD1692.00 Standard Fee: AUD1880.00 | Download Brochure Download Regform | Enquire Online Register Online |
| P007-252 04 May to 06 May 2009 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands Hotel Amsterdam - De Roode Leeuw | Earlybird Fee: EUR1179.00 Standard Fee: EUR1310.00 | Download Brochure Download Regform | Enquire Online Register Online |
| P007-253 18 May to 20 May 2009 | Adelaide, Australia Freedom Adelaide Meridien Hotel | Earlybird Fee: AUD1692.00 Standard Fee: AUD1880.00 | Download Brochure Download Regform | Enquire Online Register Online |
| P007-254 24 Aug to 26 Aug 2009 | Las Vegas, USA Clarion Las Vegas | Earlybird Fee: USD1417.00 Standard Fee: USD1575.00 | Download Brochure Download Regform | Enquire Online Register Online |
| P007-255 21 Sep to 23 Sep 2009 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands Hotel Amsterdam - De Roode Leeuw | Earlybird Fee: EUR1179.00 Standard Fee: EUR1310.00 | Download Brochure Download Regform | Enquire Online Register Online |
| P007-256 28 Sep to 30 Sep 2009 | Cape Town, South Africa Breakwater Lodge | Earlybird Fee: AUD1456.00 Standard Fee: AUD1618.00 | Download Brochure Download Regform | Enquire Online Register Online |
| P007-257 12 Oct to 14 Oct 2009 | Adelaide, Australia Freedom Adelaide Meridien Hotel | Earlybird Fee: AUD1692.00 Standard Fee: AUD1880.00 | Download Brochure Download Regform | Enquire Online Register Online |
| P007-258 23 Nov to 25 Nov 2009 | Melbourne, Australia Mercure Hotel Melbourne | Earlybird Fee: AUD1692.00 Standard Fee: AUD1880.00 | Download Brochure Download Regform | Enquire Online Register Online |
* All AUD$ amounts are inclusive of GST