This practical and hands-on one day course is for anyone who wants to know how to make eliciting and analysing Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) easier. This course is run in collaboration with ITWorks. For full event information, pricing and registration information, please click on the link below.

Our non-functional requirement workshop is a practical, hands on workshop aimed to make eliciting and analysing non-functional requirements easier.

Attendees of this course will gain a hands-on introduction to the elicitation, analysis and documentation of Non-Functional Requirements.  They will get a chance to practise the theory during the course, and will be provided with a practical, succinct and useful course manual which they can refer to after the course.

Learning Objectives

After successfully attending the course, delegates should:

✔ Understand what NFRs are and their importance on projects
✔ Know the typical categories of NFR and their significance on projects
✔ Identify appropriate elicitation techniques that would be particularly relevant when handling NFRs
✔ Identify typical stakeholders that are relevant for the elicitation and analysis of NFRs
✔ Know the characteristics of a well-defined NFR and be able to apply these when documenting them
✔ Understand how NFRs are typically documented

Course Contents

1. Introduction

Requirement Types – Overview of a requirements classification schema. – Understanding the different types of requirements. The Importance of Non-Functional Requirements

2. Stakeholders

Stakeholder Identification Stakeholder Types Relevance of NFRs to different stakeholder groups

3. Change Delivery Lifecycles

Overview of different approaches – Plan-driven lifecycles – Change-driven lifecycles – Build vs Buy Comparison of approaches – Timing and nature of NFR elicitation and analysis Traceability

4. Eliciting and Categorising NFRs

Eliciting NFRs: Brief overview of elicitation approaches, including how to plan the elicitation activitiy Categorisation: Including an NFR categorisation schema

5. Analysing and Defining NFRs

Documenting NFRs: Use of textural statements to define NFRs Prioritisation: Using the MoSCoW prioritisation framework Verification & Validation: Quality-checking and achieving sign-off Requirements Reuse: The relevance of reuse for NFRs.

Course Endorsement

This course is endorsed by IIBA®.