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Collaborating and Communicating Agile Requirements
Gathering Requirements for an Agile Project Project failures are often due to poor requirements gathering, analysis and planning. Traditional requirements documents may not contain complete and...
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$1,295 USD
Duration
2 days
Course Code
CC-AGILE-REQ
Available Formats
Classroom, Virtual
Overview
Gathering Requirements for an Agile Project Project failures are often due to poor requirements gathering, analysis and planning. Traditional requirements documents may not contain complete and accurate requirements due to rapidly changing business environments. Agile requirements gathering, by moving detailed requirements closer to implementation, allows for rapid response to change. "Collaborating and Communicating Agile Requirements" will show you how to gather and manage these requirements. Organizing and Managing Requirements Traditional requirements are documented in a requirements specification. Changes to the requirements are managed through a change process. This course will demonstrate alternative ways of documenting requirements and managing changes. These alternatives can allow for a less "heavy" process in projects that can benefit from quick changes in direction. Discover Real-World Techniques This two-day Agile requirements training course will give you hands-on experience with techniques for gathering Agile requirements. Explanatory lectures with demonstrations, combined with practice exercises will provide you with the experience needed to create requirements that meet business needs.
Skills Gained
- Master writing user stories
- Appreciate how best known methods in traditional requirements processes can apply to Agile methods
- Communicate requirements using agile techniques to bridge the customers' and developers' needs.
- Identify stakeholders and user roles to ensure that all requirement viewpoints are elicited
- Create and maintain a product backlog
- Prioritize requirements so that the most important customer needs are delivered first
- Formulate an iterative project plan with feedback cycles that keep the project on track
- Estimate business value for requirements to track how a project contributes to the enterprise
- Develop requirements in an iterative approach to capture the details at the appropriate time
Who Can Benefit
This course will be valuable to all those involved in developing technology solutions that meet business requirements and would like to do so using Agile methods.
- This class is for you if you are a:
- Business Customer or Partner
- Product Manager or Customer Representative
- Business or Systems Analyst
- Architect or Developer
- QA Tester or QA Engineer
- Project Manager or Team Leader
- IT Manager/Director
Course Details
Course Outline
- Section I: Agile Overview
- Section II. Project Initiation
- Section III: Focus on the Customer
- Section IV: User Stories
- Section V: Product Backlog
- Section VI: Estimating and Planning
- Section VII: Release Plan
- Section VIII: Use Cases
- Section IX: Iteration Plan and Execution
- Section X: Retrospective on Communicating Requirements
Schedule
3 options available
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Jun 16, 2025 - Jun 18, 2025 (3 days)
Virtual | 12:00 PM – 4:30 PM EDT Language English Select from 1 options below Virtual |12:00 PM – 4:30 PM EDT- Enroll
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Sep 8, 2025 - Sep 10, 2025 (3 days)
Virtual | 12:00 PM – 4:30 PM EDT Language English Select from 1 options below Virtual |12:00 PM – 4:30 PM EDT- Enroll
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Nov 3, 2025 - Nov 5, 2025 (3 days)
Virtual | 12:00 PM – 4:30 PM EST Language English Select from 1 options below Virtual |12:00 PM – 4:30 PM EST- Enroll
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