SHI BA09 Managing Requirements For Share Point Projects Instructions

SHI BA09 Managing Requirements For Share Point Projects

Product Information

The product is a course titled “Managing Requirements for SharePoint Projects”. It is a 2-day instructor-led course designed for executives, project managers, business analysts, and business and IT stakeholders who are involved in improving the delivery of products and services using Microsoft SharePoint. The course aims to enhance business analysis skills and focuses on SharePoint requirements. After completing the course, students will gain the ability to align products or services with desired business needs, easily adapt to changing requirements throughout the process, and effectively manage the solution scope and requirements. The course covers various topics including understanding SharePoint requirements, analyzing requirements, identifying high-level scope and initial requirements stack, creating an architectural vision, managing the change management process, capturing requirements traceability, maintaining requirements for re-use, managing requirements conflicts, preparing requirements package, assessing and validating requirements, and providing additional information on managing requirements and projects for SharePoint initiatives.

Product Usage Instructions

1. Section 2: Understanding SharePoint Requirements
   • Learn about business, user, functional, quality-of-service, and implementation requirements
   • Understand the difference between requirements and specifications
   • Differentiate requirements from business rules
   • Explore risk management and risk response strategies
   • Analyze requirements
2. Section 3: SharePoint Requirements Modeling
   • Identify high-level scope
   • Identify initial requirements stack
   • Create an architectural vision
   • Plan your iteration (iteration modeling, model storming, test-driven development)
3. Section 4: The Change Management Process
   • Manage the solution scope and requirements
   • Capture requirements traceability
   • Maintain requirements for re-use
   • Manage requirements conflicts
   • Prepare the requirements package
   • Build the requirements communications plan
4. Section 5: Assessing and Validating Requirements
   • Validate and verify SharePoint requirements
   • Create a master test plan
   • Create test scenarios and test cases
5. Section 6: Additional Information
   • Access useful books and links on managing requirements and projects for SharePoint initiatives

About this course

Many of today’s Project Management and Business Analyst professionals are finding themselves leading, managing and analyzing SharePoint initiatives – only to find that many of the tools and techniques applied no longer work as effectively or at all. In order to do more than survive in this iterative development environment, today’s Project Manager and Business Analysts must employ additional project management and business analysis tools and techniques to effectively lead their teams and deliver their projects. Requirements can change frequently during a SharePoint project, and therefore projects need a streamlined, flexible approach to requirements change management. SharePoint professionals want to develop systems and services that are both high-quality and high-value, and the easiest way to achieve this is to implement the highest priority requirements first. This enables the projects to maximize value for their stakeholders. The course will explore how your projects can easily and successfully manage requirements in an effective SharePoint environment.

Audience profile
Executives, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Business and IT stakeholders engaged in improving the delivery of products and services that meet user needs through the use of Microsoft SharePoint; Anyone who wants to improve their Business Analysis skills; Project stakeholders concerned with SharePoint requirements.

At course completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Plan, manage,d and close requirements for a project in reduced time using good business analysis practices
• Minimize project uncertainty and risk by applying good techniques
• Ensure your project delivers the required functionality and adds value to the business
• Create an environment of self-management for your team that will be able to continuously align the delivered product or services with desired business needs, easily adapting to changing requirements throughout the process.

Course Outline

Section 1: Introduction – Roles involved in a SharePoint project

• The opportunities and challenges of a SharePoint project
• The business analysis process
• BA role vs. project manager role
• BA / PM competencies

Section 2: Understanding SharePoint Requirements

• Business, User, Functional, Quality-of-service and implementation requirements
• Requirements vs. specifications
• Requirements vs. business rules
• Risk management and risk response strategies
• Analyzing requirements
• Characteristics of effective requirements

Section3: SharePoint Requirements Modeling

• Identify high-level scope
• Identify initial requirements stack
• Identify an architectural vision
• Plan your iteration
  • Iteration modeling or model-storming
  • Test-driven development

Section 4: The Change Management Process

• Managing the Solution Scope and Requirements
• Capturing the Requirements Traceability
• Maintaining the Requirements for re-use
• Managing Requirements Conflicts
• Preparing the Requirements Package
• Building the Requirements communications plan

Section 5: Assessing and Validating Requirements

• Validating and verifying SharePoint Requirements
• Creating a master test plan
• Create test scenarios and test cases

Section 6: Additional Information

• Useful books and links on managing requirements and projects for SharePoint initiatives.

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