Agile requirements management

The management of requirements is a key process in the success of software development projects, and those using Agile are not exceptions. Rather, in promoting collaboration with clients, and in focusing on delivering business value, the management of requirements is of prime importance.

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  • Duration: 2 days
  • Regular price: $1,200
  • Preferential price: $1,080

Course outline

Duration : 2 days

Public concerné

Product Owners involved in Agile projects and the team members who help define the requirements.

Préalables

The participants must :
  • Have an introductory knowledge of Agile
  • Have read the Scrum guide
  • Understand the life cycle of a product
  • Have a basic understanding of business architecture or business analysis or requirements gathering

Objectifs

  • Understand the impact of Agile values and principles on the management of requirements
  • Understand the impact on team-member roles and what connects them to the Product Owner
  • Grasp and manage the requirements of a project via the product backlog
  • Use different techniques for managing requirements which favor Agility
  • Refine the needs to ensure the delivery of a high-quality product
  • Define the business value of the needs and the sequencing of production
  • Explain the acceptance and validation mechanisms of the solution

Méthode pédagogique

Workshops, presentations and demos

Contenu

Introduction
  • The essentials of requirement and product management
  • Agile, its values and impacts on the process of managing requirements
  • Agile’s main steps for managing requirements
Role and responsibility in Agile management of requirements
  • Who is the Product owner?
  • Who are the PO’s team members?
  • The role of the Product owner, on the micro and macro levels
Communicating and comprehending the vision
  • Defining a product’s vision
  • Expressing needs in the form of a product backlog
  • Prioritization and the management of business value
Product backlog management
  • About user stories
  • Creation of a product backlog via use cases
  • Techniques for User Story Mapping
  • Techniques for refining user stories
  • About non-functional requirements
Realizing the vision and adapting across iterations
  • The life cycle of a product backlog element and the role of the Product owner
  • Being ready to sprint : Just enough anticipation
  • Validation : finishing an element bringing value during the sprint, conditions of acceptation, definition of “done”
  • Demonstrating the production and communicating with the stakeholders
  • Behavior-driven development (BDD) techniques

Surround yourself with the best

Carl M. Gilbert
Carl M. Gilbert
Expert Leader
Carl M. Gilbert is a coach, mentor and project manager with more than 25 years of experience in project management, mainly in information technology. He has trained more than 25,000 people in project management (in traditional, agile or hybrid mode) all around the world. Carl M. Gilbert is an engineer and also holds a master's degree in project management from with a specialization in international project management. For 25 years, he has specialized in strategic consulting in project management, program management and portfolio management.
Catherine Edgar
Catherine Edgar
Senior Project Director and Project Management Trainer
Catherine Edgar is a senior project director with more than 25 years of IT experience at large firms. Over the course of her career, Catherine has developed management expertise with a focus on the human impact brought about by change. She has excellent problem-solving, training, coaching and interpersonal relation skills. Catherine holds a bachelor’s degree in management information technology, as well as a certification as a project management professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Jean Falardeau
Jean Falardeau
Trainer
With a Masters degree in Science and a bachelor in information systems, Jean Falardeau has been in the business for more than 35 years. He works in business architecture and analysis, strategic consulting, change management, enterprise architecture, business process reengineering and AgilityFor nearly 7 years, Jean trained more than 400 people showing them best practices in architecture and business analysis. His work was based on guides such as BABOK and BIZBOK.
Michel Drolet
Michel Drolet
Executive VP and Strategic Management Advisor
Backed by solid experience in industry, Michel is what you would call a high-level strategic consultant.