Spring Study Group Session 5- Chapter 4 Requirements Management and Communication

By request from members, IIBA Houston will present a Study Group on BABOK 2.0. If you are serious about pursuing your CBAP� and want to stay accountable, or if you are curious to find out what its all about, come check out the BABOK� Fast Track Study Group.

The topic for this session is Chapter 4: Requirements Management & Communication

The Requirements Management and Communication Knowledge Area describes the activities and considerations for managing and expressing requirements to a broad and diverse audience. These tasks are performed to ensure that all stakeholders have a shared understanding of the nature of a solution and to ensure that those stakeholders with approval authority are in agreement as to the requirements that the solution shall meet. Communicating requirements helps to bring the stakeholders to a common understanding of the requirements. Because the stakeholders represent people from different backgrounds and business domains, this communication is both challenging and critical to the success of any initiative. It involves determining which sets of requirements are relevant to a particular stakeholder group and presenting those requirements in an appropriate format for that audience. Management of requirements assists with understanding the effects of change and linking business goals and objectives to the actual solution that is constructed and delivered. Over the long term, it also ensures that the knowledge and understanding of the organization gained during business analysis is available for future use.

Sessions are free for paid members of IIBA Houston. They are $10 each session for non-members or $75 for all 8 Sessions.

We'll meet every Wednesday for 8 weeks and cover the ENTIRE BABOK (version 2).

Mar 16 - Chapter 1 Introduction & Chapter 5 Enterprise Analysis

Mar 23 - Chapter 6 Requirements Analysis

Mar 30 - Chapter 7 Solution Assessment & Validation

Apr 6 - Chapter 2 Planning & Monitoring

Apr 13 - Chapter 4 Requirements Management & Communication

Apr 20 - Chapter 8 Underlying Competencies & Chapter 9 Techniques - part 1

Apr 27 - Chapter 9 Techniques - part 2

May 4 - Chapter 3 Elicitation and Exam tools

During these sessions, a facilitator will lead a discussion of each knowledge area, helping you understand the goal of specific business analysis activities, key tasks involved, relationships of various artifacts and deliverables. It's a great way to learn more about BA tasks, but it's especially geared to those studying for the CBAP exam. However, you will need to read the chapters before each week's session. The sessions are a great place to ask questions and dig deeper, but it works best when everyone is familiar with the material. We know it's a lot to cover in 8 weeks, but this Fast Track format has been most successful for us - and we've held sessions for about 3 years and a lot of Houston Chapter members have recieved thier CBAPcertification after taking this course.

We'll also cover tips for the application process and lots of tools and techniques to employ during the test. We have several CBAPs that will join our sessions to answer questions about the test and the certification process.

We'll send out more information to registrants the week before sessions start. If you would like to attend, but the location doesn't work - let us know. We are open to alternate locations, based on where the majority of attendees are coming from. Contact us at Education@houston.iiba.org for more information.