Effective Agile Requirements Gathering

Planning for Requirements Gathering

• BA Skills Needed
• Who is the Business Lead?
• The Engaged Decision Maker
• Business Lead Proxies and Vacant Leads
• Understanding the Problem Domain
• Questions to Ask
• Emergent Requirements
• Designing your Requirements Gathering Approach
• Elicitation Techniques
• Requirements Gathering Process Design Cheat Sheet
• Our Sample Projects
• Designing your Approach

Requirements Visioning

• Visioning I
• your Vision Statement
• Defining the Project Objectives
• Defining Conditions of Satisfaction
• Sample Conditions of Satisfaction I
• Sample Conditions of Satisfaction II
• Create a Vision, Objectives and COS
  • Identifying Features/Features
  • High Level Use Case Diagrams
  • Sample Use Case Diagram
• Create a Use Case Diagram
  • Visioning II
  • Process Modeling
  • Sample Business Process Diagrams
  • Sample Process Diagram (By Hand)
  • User Interface Flow
  • UI Flow - Sample (By Hand)
  • UI Sitemap - Sample
  • The Feature List
  • Feature List High Level
  • Visioning Summary
• Process Modeling & UI Flows
• Create your High Level Feature List
  • Roadmap Prioritization
  • Levels of Prioritization
  • Product Roadmap
  • Prioritization Factors
  • Product Prioritization using Value Buckets
• Business Value Buckets Prioritization
  • Requirements Breakdown I
  • Feature Writing Workshops
  • Writing Good Requirements
  • Attributes of a Small Feature
• Brainstorming Features
  • Requirements Breakdown II
  • Breaking Down the EPICS
  • Sample Compound Features
  • Sample Complex Features
  • Real World Methods for Feature Break Down
  • Process Based Breakdown
  • CRUD – Function Based Breakdown
  • Business Rule Breakdown
  • User or Platform Based Breakdown
• Breaking Down the EPICs
  • Non-Functional Requirements
  • Non Functional/Foundational Features
  • Sample Foundation Features
  • Proof of Concept Requirements
  • Release Prioritization
  • Dependency Prioritization
  • Dependency Chart Example

Requirements Deep-Dive

• Release Prioritization (Optional)
  • Feature Deep-Dive (Detailed Requirements)
  • Where are the Feature Details?
  • Identifying Acceptance Tests
  • Categories of Tests
  • Sample Acceptance Test Cases
  • Test Examples
  • Test Examples
  • Business Rules
  • Sample UI Prototypes
  • Sample UI Prototype
  • The 'Traceability' Question
• Creating Acceptance Tests, Business Rules and UI Prototypes
• The Retrospective

Requirements Testing and Change Management

• Principles for Successful Testing
• The Role of the Tester
• Sample Test Results
• How to Manage the Inevitable CHANGE!
• Top Tips to Managing Requirements Change
• Sample Change Management Tracking Notes
• Resources