4-Day Lean Requirements Workshop

Art for Lean Requirements Workshop

Software development requires that you understand both the big picture and the details.

A Lean approach to requirements balances these needs: When you understand the big picture, you can better manage development as the product evolves. By exploring details just in time, you improve focus and reduce waste.

The Lean Requirements Workshop helps you improve the skills you need to work with stakeholders to generate and validate quantifiable requirements. Such requirements work well with iterative development processes such as Test-Driven Development.

You will learn ways to prioritize requirements, plan releases, and gather faster feedback.

We will use two approaches to making this real:

  1. A running example involving analysis of a small but realistic project
  2. Refinement of requirements-related materials from your projects (current or recent). (Bring these materials for the workout on the last day.)



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4-Day Lean Requirements Workshop

Software development requires that you understand both the big picture and the details.

A Lean approach to requirements balances these needs: When you understand the big picture, you can better manage development as the product evolves. By exploring details just in time, you improve focus and reduce waste.

The Lean Requirements Workshop helps you improve the skills you need to work with stakeholders to generate and validate quantifiable requirements. Such requirements work well with iterative development processes such as Test-Driven Development.

You will learn ways to prioritize requirements, plan releases, and gather faster feedback.

We will use two approaches to making this real:

  1. A running example involving analysis of a small but realistic project
  2. Refinement of requirements-related materials from your projects (current or recent). (Bring these materials for the workout on the last day.)

Transfer %

Knowledge: 40%, Skill-Building: 60%

Learning Outcomes

  • Able to participate effectively in requirements development, collaborating to identify a minimum viable product and create an incremental release plan
  • Able to negotiate with stakeholders to balance tradeoffs effectively
  • Able to use a variety of techniques to gather requirements
  • Able to frame requirements in a way that enables effective development
    • User stories and tests for functional requirements
    • Quantified quality for non-functional requirements
  • Able to refine and validate requirements using several different techniques

Method of Instruction

A mix of Interactive Dialogs, Exercises, Lectures, Live and/or Video Demonstrations, and Instructional Simulation

Target Audience

  • Primary: Programmers and Testers with 2-3 years experience
  • Secondary: Managers or more advanced developers

Course Level

Introductory/Intermediate

Course Prerequisites

  • Required: An open mind
  • Highly Recommended: Basic understanding of the lifecycle of software projects
  • Highly Recommended: "Composing User Stories" eLearning. (We encourage you to explore this material before and after class. During the classroom training, we will review highlights of stories and story writing, and cover about half the material on splitting user stories.)
We can customize the contents and agenda to best suit your needs.

Contents

Background: Lean, Agile, and Lean Startups
Chartering: Setting the Team's Direction
Business Models: Understanding the Business
Negotiating: Balancing Competing Needs
Ways to Identify Requirements
Describing Functions with User Stories
Splitting User Stories for Iterative Development
Acceptance Tests to Clarify Requirements
Quantifying Quality Requirements
Validating: Are We Doing the Right Thing?
Story Maps to Guide Product Plans
Final Workout: Applying These Ideas in Your Environment

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Requirements

General Requirements

To ensure a successful class, we require the following facilities:

  • VGA projector (1024x768 minimum)
  • Projector screen
  • Speakers (to connect instructor's machines. Sound should be audible to the whole class)
  • White board
  • Dry erase markers
  • Flip chart and stand
  • Ample room for students in terms of room size and set up (prefer U-Shape seating)

Class Room Set-up

  • Preferred arrangement is small round tables with 6-8 people to support small-group discussion
  • Three additional flip-charts with stands (for small-group use)

Once an agreement for the workshop is confirmed, we will work with your designated contact to ensure that the environment is configured properly prior to the workshop.