In Search of Excellent Requirements Workshop* - 2 days

Agenda

1.	Introduction to requirements engineering Introduction to workshop, objectives, participant expectations Define three levels of software requirements: business, user, and functional Requirements development and requirements management process overview
2.	Identifying users Sources of requirements Customer involvement in the requirements process: the product champion model and user classes Practice session: clarifying users, user classes and product champions
3.	Defining vision and scope Business requirements Vision and scope document Using a context diagram to capture scope Practice session: writing business requirements and capturing scope using a context diagram
4.	Understanding user needs Gathering requirements through use cases Practice session: use cases Software quality attributes, nonfunctional requirements and constraints Practice session: deriving software quality attributes, nonfunctional requirements and constraints Documenting requirements: the software requirements specification (SRS)
5.	Deriving functional requirements Deriving functional requirements, system requirements and business rules Practice session: deriving functional requirements, system requirements and business rules
6.	Analyzing and verifying requirements Prioritizing requirements NASA's ARM freeware tool to find requirements errors Modeling user interfaces with dialog maps Practice session: dialog maps Reviewing and inspecting requirements documents Practice session: inspecting a portion of an SRS Generating test cases Reducing the expectation gap through prototyping
7.	Managing requirements changes Requirements management process Requirements management tools Requirements traceability
8.	Optional: The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI 1.2) Requirements (REQM and RD)

*Licensed from Karl Wiegers, and based on his book, Software Requirements (Microsoft Press, Edition 2, 2003, ISBN 0-7356-1879-8).

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