Tool-Based Requirements Management

Lift your requirements to the next level

Modern requirements tools can significantly improve development productivity, product quality, and perceived customer value. Other than conventional office apps, specialized tools make your requirements accessible to your teams always and from everywhere. They offer extensive functionality for authoring, visualizing, collaborating on and using requirements.

The training course presents the power of tool-based requirements management and teaches hands-on practices. While being applicable to any state-of-the-art tool, it uses for illustration the widely available Atlassian Jira with the app ease solutions easeRequirements.

Participants will learn:

• What are the fundamental building blocks of tool-based requirements management?
• What tools are available on the market, and what are their characteristics?
• How does tool-based requirements management differ from traditional approaches?
• How can you set up and use a prototypical tool-based requirements solution?
• How can you start with tool-based requirements in your own job, team, or organization?

Participants shall have a basic understanding of requirements management or a related field (e.g., business analysis, product management, systems engineering). Prior knowledge or experience with requirements tools is not required.

The course is designed as a rich and highly effective learning experience, including synchronous (classroom) and asynchronous parts (self-study, flipped classroom). At its core is an instructor-led live online session. Participants prepare the live session by guided self-study according to the flipped classroom model. After the live session they can get the opportunity to set up and try out a requirements tool in a self-paced practical exercise, following a step-by-step scenario. The participants can receive access to a discussion forum that helps clarifying follow-up questions and connecting with other practitioners and experts.

The instructors are subject-matter experts with long track-records of practical experience. They also know well how to facilitate highly interactive web-based learning.