Documenting Business and Technical Requirements

    

Summary:
This course provides a comprehensive writing process specifically applied to those documents that describe business and technical requirements. Through the course, the student will learn to improve their technical writing skills, while reducing the total time they spend on their requirements documents. It is strongly recommended that the student brings their documents--either completed or in progress-- to the training session to allow the immediate application of the course principles to their own work.

Duration:
2 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This course is recommended for those who produce business and technical requirements and reviewers of these documents.

Topics:

• Apply a "total-quality" writing process to requirements documents
• Realize time savings with a four-phase approach planning, design, drafting, and revision
• Analyze the customer's perspective on the requirements
• Understand the context for the requirements in the bigger picture of the product or service
• Apply structural models for business and technical requirements documents
• Use graphics and formatting conventions effectively
• Employ drafting techniques, pertaining to requirements documentation, for description and procedures
• Organize requirements clearly and succinctly
• Write recommendations that inspire action and confidence in the reader
• Recognize and correct common grammar and style flaws

Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites for this course.

Last Update: May 21, 2012