Requirements Discovery for Business Analyst – 2024

Welcome to “Requirements Discovery for Business Analyst – 2023” the ultimate online crash course on the fundamental principles of conducting successful IT requirements discovery sessions for your digital projects!

Requirements elicitation and discovery are critical processes in any software development project. However, conducting requirements gathering effectively requires a deep dive into the client’s subject matter and the specifics of their business. This ensures that every project software requirement is understood, estimated, captured, and communicated clearly to the project delivery team. This is where the requirements discovery phase comes in, and this course is here to help you master it!

This crash course covers everything you need to know to conduct a successful Discovery engagement!

In less than 1 hour, you will learn how to prepare and execute a discovery engagement, analyze the outcomes, and transition the results to the delivery team. We will discuss assembling a discovery team, highlighting the business analyst’s role in the team, developing a discovery agenda, scheduling meetings, and navigating conflicts. By the end of this course, you will have a solid understanding of different types of IT discovery meetings, such as show-and-tell, interviews, and workshops. You will also learn what outcomes are expected as a result of the discovery, such as the product requirements agile backlog, UX wireframes, user stories, and more. Additionally, you will gain insights into best practices for running knowledge transfer and transitioning artifacts to the IT delivery team.

By enrolling in this course, you will learn:

• How to prepare, execute, and wrap up IT discovery engagements

• Different types of discovery meetings: show-and-tell, interviews, workshops

• How to create discovery agendas and prepare for project meetings

• What artifacts should be created as a result of discovery: product backlog, UX wireframes, agile user stories for sprint 1

• How to run knowledge transfer and transition artifacts to the IT delivery team

• Specifics of online/offline discovery workshops

• A discovery checklist to help you stay organized

• Recommendations for further reading

Led by Sergey Shimansky, an industry expert with over 17 years of experience managing projects for Fortune 500 organizations in the United States and Europe, this crash course will teach you the best practices adopted by industry professionals.

This course is designed for IT Business Analysts, Product Owners, Project Managers, Solution Architects, and other project leaders involved in planning or executing software development and consulting projects.

By taking this course, you’ll gain the knowledge and skills required for successful Requirements Discovery!

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