Education Services
Business Analyst Certificate Program
Gathering & Documenting Requirements : UT Austin Professional Development Center
The business analyst has been described as the person who bridges the divide between IT departments and the business organizations they support. For all of the tools and techniques to elicit requirements, nothing is more important than making the most of human contact between these two interdependent groups. This seminar discusses several useful approaches to gathering requirements and focusing on the facilitation of collaborative sessions.
Building Effective Business Requirements: UT Austin Professional Development Center
At least half of product defects and as much as 80 percent of rework on a development project can be traced back to requirement defects. In today's environment, where every system dollar is scrutinized and squeezed, one of the greatest improvement opportunities for an IT organization is in defining the requirements correctly. This seminar provides tools, techniques, and templates to help IT project teams extract the right information from the business users and create requirements to support the design, development, testing, and deployment of successful system solutions. .
Requirements Management
Requirements Management with Use Cases: UT Austin Professional Development Center
Well-defined requirements are the foundation for delivering a sound product that meets all of your customer's needs. This hands-on class shows professionals the "Use Case Approach to Requirements Management," a sure fire way to capture accurate requirements from no technical business stakeholders.To simulate a real world experience, participants will work in teams to develop use cases and requirements based on real world applications. Students will also learn the processes for developing supporting artifacts including:
- Requirements Management Plan
- Use Case Guidelines
- Requirements traceability
- Defect Tracking
- Test Case Management
Participants will leave the class with real world experience in managing requirements from end to end and a set of industry standard templates to use in the workplace.
Project Management Tools
Optimizing Microsoft Project : UT Austin Professional Development Center
Most people underutilize MS Project's powerful planning capabilities. For example, it can be configured to manage your projects based on your scheduling approach as well as help you determine when project schedules should be resource driven, effort driven, milestone driven, or utilization driven.
This workshop is designed to build your skills with MS Project 2003 through hands-on experience with the advanced features for task creation and allocation, task management and reporting, resource allocation and management, earned value analysis, customer views, filters, and impact analysis.