The Volere requirements techniques were developed to answer the need for a common language for discovering requirements and connecting them to solutions. A requirements language needs to be understandable by business people, customers, business analysts, engineers, designers, suppliers, testers and anyone else whose input is needed. All of these people have different skills and, not surprisingly, different views of the importance of their requirements. A language intended for all of these people must recognise the differences in peoples’ viewpoints and yet have a consistent way of communicating and tracing the relevant knowledge. The realisation that requirements is a socio-technical discipline has a strong influence on the courses that we offer.
The Volere courses are owned and run by the Atlantic Systems Guild. The Guild is an endorsed education provider by the International Institute of Business Analysts (IIBA). Where noted below, the course is endorsed by the IIBA.
All of our courses can be run on-site at your establishment. This gives you the advantage of having exclusive access to the instructor, as well as your participants being able to discuss their own work processes and problems openly. Please contact your nearest agent to discuss the possibility of on-site training.
Mastering the Requirements Process
This is our flagship course. In three days it delivers a bombproof way of gathering and verifying testable requirements by giving you:
- A process for gathering the correct requirements
- Methods of eliciting the right requirements from your users
- Ways of knowing when your solution precisely matches what the user needs
- The ability to write a compete and unambiguous requirements specification
Mastering the Requirements Process is aimed at business analysts, systems mangers, project leaders, consultants and systems analysts. This is not a "technical" course and is quite suitable for business users and customers who are normally stakeholders in any requirements project.
This course is endorsed by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA™). It provides material and skill relevant to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK™) version 2.0.
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Mastering the Requirements Process - part 2
This advanced seminar is aimed at established requirements professionals. It gives you ways of taking your requirements activities to a higher level, and to make better connections with your project management. It shows you..
- How to select an agile requirements process
- How to prioritise requirements
- How to manage propjects where there are multiple components in the solution
- Techniques for building and maintaining good stakeholder relationships
- How to tell the cost and value of a requirement
This seminar is appropriate for business analysts, systems mangers, project leaders, and consultants. The material is aimed at people who are experienced requirements professionals and are already familiar with business events, product use cases, context models, functional requirements, non-functional requirements and constraints. The sister seminar Mastering the Requirements Process covers all of these concepts.
This course is endorsed by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA™). It provides material and skill relevant to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK™) version 2.0.
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This course that gives you techniques, tools and strategies to make innovation an integral part of your requirements, development and planning processes. Your business processes, systems, products and services all need regular injections of innovation if they are to remain relevant to your operations and your customers.
You can learn to innovate. There is no "innovation process", but there are techniques, tools and strategies you can use to:
- Reduce the cost of business processes through innovative use of existing facilities
- Reduce the cost of servicing customers by innovative use of your existing information technology
- Improve customer service by employing some of the Creative Triggers from this course
- Engage more closely with your customers by imaginative rearrangement of your current business connections
- Create improved, more imaginative products by adopting analogous ideas from other domains
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This is a two-day course that teaches the craft of analysing a business with a view to improving it. Business analysis is a combination of modelling, systemic thinking, innovating, communicating, root cause analysis, persuasion and several other analytical skills.
In short, business analysis is about understanding the real business and providing ways to make it better. The course shows you how to:
- Discover real business needs, not just the most talked-about ones.
- Improve the business processes by applying automation or other means.
- Define the most beneficial scope for the analysis project.
- Use models to understand and communicate the business processes, and ensure stakeholders also understand.
- Employ business events as a way of partitioning the business for easier understanding.
- Think systemically, and find truly the best way to improve your client’s business.
This is an appropriate course for anyone with an interest in effective business improvement. Your title is most likely Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Project Leader, Requirements Analyst, Product or Program Manager.
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This one day course is an introduction to the Volere requirements techniques. It is ideal for smaller projects and smaller companies, and those who want to know a little more about requirements before investing in the full process. It is intended as a practical entry point for the Volere requirements techniques. The course covers:
- An introduction to requirements
- A starting point for the Volere techniques
- Define the roles and perspectives required for requirements analysis
- Understand how data defines the processes and the requirements
- Writing functional and non-functional requirements
- Understand how the requirements activity fits into your work
This seminar is appropriate for business analysts starting their careers, and companies who want to find out more about how they should be doing requirements. You would also attend if your job title is systems analyst, project manager, product manager, or have responsibilities for delivering correct and workable systems.
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This two-day course shows how systems analysis models are used to elicit and verify requirements. It shows you
- How to use requirements models to prove the required functionality
- How to elicit requirements using models
- How to add rigor to your requirements
- How to understand your customer's requirements using models
This course is suitable for business analysts, systems analysts, systems mangers, project leaders, consultants.
This course is endorsed by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA™). It provides material and skill relevant to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK™) version 2.0.
