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Those materials will help you pass BABOK certification exams. Study Group was aimed at individuals self preparing to CCBA or CBAP exams.
Please visit my blog: http://zubkiewicz.com/
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Plz don't mind some logo and strikethrough.. they were meant to create fun for myself.
You may join the course from Udemy as I take and enjoy the class from there.
With discount it was only $11.
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https://www.udemy.com/share/101WE2AkcZd15VRn4=/
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2. Requirements management practices
• Requirements management includes all activities that maintain the integrity, accuracy, and currency
of requirements agreements throughout the project.
• The requirements management is divided into four major categories: version control, change control,
requirements status tracking, and requirements tracing.
3. The requirements baseline
• Requirements development involves activities to elicit, analyse, specify,
and validate a software project’s requirements.
• Requirements development deliverables include business requirements,
user requirements, functional and non-functional requirements, a data
dictionary, and various analysis models.
• After they are reviewed and approved, any defined subset of these items
constitutes a requirements baseline.
• At the time a set of requirements is baselined—typically following review
and approval—the requirements are placed under configuration (or
change) management.
• Subsequent changes can be made only through the project’s defined
change control procedure.
4. The requirements baseline-contd.
A development team that accepts proposed requirement changes or
additions might not be able to fulfil its existing schedule and quality
commitments.
The project manager must negotiate changes to those commitments with
affected managers, customers, and other stakeholders. The project can
accommodate new or changed requirements in various ways:
By deferring lower-priority requirements to later iterations or cutting them
completely
By obtaining additional staff or outsourcing some of the work
By extending the delivery schedule or adding iterations to an agile project
By sacrificing quality to ship by the original date
No single approach is universally correct, because projects differ in their flexibility
of features, staff, budget, schedule, and quality (Wiegers 1996).
5. Requirements version control
• Uniquely identifying different versions of an item—applies at the level of
both individual requirements and requirements sets, most commonly
represented in the form of documents.
• Begin version control as soon as you draft a requirement or a document so
you can retain a history of changes made.
• Every version of the requirements must be uniquely identified.
• Every team member must be able to access the current version of the
requirements.
• Changes must be clearly documented and communicated to everyone
affected.
• To minimize confusion and miscommunication, permit only designated
individuals to update the requirements, and make sure that the version
identifier changes whenever an update is made
6. Requirement attributes
• Each requirement should have supporting pieces of information or attributes associated with it.
• These attributes establish a context and background for each requirement.
• You can store attribute values in a document, a spreadsheet, a database, or—most effectively—a
requirements management tool. Following is a list of potential requirement attributes to
consider:
Date the requirement was created
Current version number of the requirement
Author who wrote the requirement
Priority
Status
Origin or source of the requirement
Rationale behind the requirement
Release number or iteration to which the requirement is allocated
Stakeholder to contact with questions or to make decisions about proposed changes
Validation method to be used or acceptance criteria
7. Tracking requirements status
• Tracking status means comparing where you really are at a particular time against
the expectation of what “complete” means for this development cycle.
8. Tracking requirements status
• Classifying requirements into several status categories is more meaningful than trying to monitor
the percent completion of each requirement or of the complete release baseline.
• Update a requirement’s status only when specified transition conditions are satisfied.
• Certain status changes also require updates to the requirements trace data to indicate which
design, code, and test elements addressed the requirement.
9. Resolving requirements issues
• Numerous questions, decisions, and issues related to requirements will
arise during the course of a project.
• Potential issues include items flagged as TBD, pending decisions,
information that is needed, and conflicts awaiting resolution.
• It’s easy to lose sight of these open issues.
• Keep the issue-tracking and resolution process simple to ensure that
nothing slips through the cracks. Some of the benefits of using an issue-
tracking tool are:
Issues from multiple requirements reviews are collected so that no issue ever gets
lost.
The project manager can easily see the current status of all issues.
A single owner can be assigned to each issue.
The history of discussion around an issue can be retained.
The team can begin development earlier with a known set of open issues rather than
having to wait until the SRS is complete.
11. Measuring requirements effort
• Measuring effort requires a culture change and the individual discipline to
record daily work activities (Wiegers 1996).
• When tracking requirements development effort, you might find it valuable
to separate the time spent by people in the BA role from time spent by
other project participants.
Planning requirements-related activities for the project
Holding workshops and interviews
Writing requirements specifications, creating analysis models, and prioritizing
requirements
Creating and evaluating prototypes intended to assist with requirements
development
Reviewing requirements and performing other validation activities
Submitting requirements changes and proposing new requirements
Updating the requirements repository
Communicating requirements changes to affected stakeholders
Tracking and reporting requirements status
12. Managing requirements on agile projects
• Agile projects accommodate change by building the product through
a series of development iterations and managing a dynamic product
backlog of work remaining to be done.
• The agile project management tool is used to track the status of an
iteration and the stories allocated to it.
• In backlog (the story is not yet allocated to an iteration)
• Defined (details of the story were discussed and understood, and acceptance
tests were written)
• In progress (the story is being implemented)
• Completed (the story is fully implemented)
• Accepted (acceptance tests were passed)
• Blocked (the developer is unable to proceed until something else is resolved)
13. Why manage requirements?
• Whether your project is following a sequential development life cycle,
one of the various agile life cycles, or any other approach, managing
the requirements is an essential activity.
• Requirements management helps to ensure that the effort you invest
in requirements development isn’t squandered.
• Effective requirements management reduces the expectation gap by
keeping all project stakeholders informed about the current state of
the requirements throughout the development process.
• It lets you know where you’re headed, how the trip is going, and
when you’ve arrived at your destination.