May 2007 RI IIBA Meeting

Sponsored by FM Global

Thursday, May 3, 2007

Presenter - Mary Gorman of EBG Consulting

Start Smart with Scope Modeling:

Leveraging the Requirements Roadmap and the IIBA BABOK

The problems that result from inaccurately specifying the scope of a project can permeate and threaten the entire development effort.  This presentation will describe effective, time-tested practices for developing scope-level user requirements quickly without compromising quality - a critical skill for Business Analyst professionals.

The Requirements Roadmap provides a useful framework for building multiple, interwoven models.  This presentation will highlight selected scope models on the roadmap, demonstrate the value of linking the models and provide a detailed cross reference to the IIBA Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK).

The roadmap is fulling described in Ellen Gottesdiener's latest book, The Software Requirements Memory Jogger: A Pocket Guide to Help Software and Business Teams Develop and Manage Requirements.  For each model on the roadmap, The Jogger answers:

• What is it?

• Why Use it?

• What does it do?

• How do I develop it?  and more.

Audience

This presentation assumes that participants are familiar with the problems associated with requirements elicitation and the weaknesses of textual requirements.  Familiarity with or exposure to a variety of requirements analysis models (such as process models, scenarios, business rules, data models, etc.) is desireable but not required.

Speaker's Bio

EBG Consulting helps your business and technical teams get product requirements right so your projects start smart and deliver the right product at the right time.  EBG offers services including training and eLearning, mentoring, requirements clinics and professional workshop facilitation.  EBG Consulting is a Charter Endorsed Education Provider (EEP) of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA).

Mary Gorman is a Senior Associate with EBG Consulting, Inc.  For more than 20 years, Mary has worked with many organizations, including numerous Fortune 100 companies, as a consultant, mentor, trainer, facilitator, process engineer, and analyst building robust business and system models.

Mary has a deep experience helping managers and analysts plan, build, monitor, and measure deliverables in a variety of ways:

• Creating and customizing job aids, such as deliverable frameworks, templates, style guides, and evaluation criteria
• Defining stewardship roles and responsibilities
• Creating traceability matrices
• Mentoring projct stakeholders to help understand and leverage the behavioral, structural, dynamic, and control requirements models

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