With the latest trend towards “cloud computing”, it’s worth taking a moment to stop and think about how requirements practices change for cloud computing projects. Bill Flowers did just that here at RQNG.

My two cents on this topic is that in some cases, your requirements practices don’t change at all for a cloud computing project. For example, if you are doing a vendor selection project, you may not know if you are going to end up with a cloud solution or not when you do the bulk of your requirements elicitation. So really those projects practices shouldn’t look different.

We are delivering train-the-trainers sessions to one of our customers. In these sessions, we are training some of their senior Business Analysts (BAs) on how to give our Requirements Elicitation course to other BAs in their organization. Well, this week I was working with two people in Houston, two in London, and one in the Netherlands, and I was reminded that with global audiences we have to be careful with our language choices!

Join us in Boston or Vancouver next week for ‘If You Build It, Will They Use It? Leveraging Business Objectives to Deliver Successful Projects’

Overview:

Business Objectives are the measurable results a business desires to achieve when executing a project. They can be used to ensure that everything developed in the project contributes to the desired measurable business value. This discussion will help Business Analysts learn to develop good business objectives, to derive requirements from them, and how to apply them to control project scope.
Learning Objectives:

•Understand how Business Objectives are vital to businesses
•Understand how to elicit and write good Business Objectives