BAB-611 - Managing Requirements for Microsoft SharePoint Services Deployments
Course
BAB-611
Price:
$1,150.00
Software Assurance Value:
Not Eligible
Duration:
2 Days
BAB 611 - Managing Requirements for Microsoft SharePoint Services Deployments
Table of Contents
Who Should Attend
Introduction
At Course Completion
Course Format
Certifications
Prerequisites
Course Outline
The following individuals would benefit from participating in this workshop:
Project managers involved in SharePoint deployments and senior managers considering deployments.
Business Analysts.
Project stakeholders concerned with SharePoint requirements management
Those who aspire to become project managers or business analysts
Those engaged in improving the delivery of products and services that meet user needs through the use of Microsoft SharePoint]
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There is no more critical function in the management of a Microsoft SharePoint Services deployment than identifying a clear project scope, which includes identifying the requirements of the product the project will create. Unfortunately, identifying those requirements is difficult under even the best circumstances. Often, requirements are poorly understood even by business users of the systems or products to be created by the project and by the project designers and developers. Users often have a difficult time articulating requirements, and, frequently, the requirements will need to be changed during the course of the project. Those who develop the SharePoint deployment may also bring their own biases to product design, which may further complicate the ability of the deployment to produce deliverables that meet user needs. And because of the extensive capabilities of SharePoint and its potential impact on the operations of any organization, senior stakeholders will have an interest in and opinions about the direction of the deployment and the business problems it should address.
This two-day, highly interactive workshop is designed to acquaint managers and users with the capabilities of SharePoint, increase their skills in requirements management for complex IT projects, and identify the requirements for a SharePoint solution that meets their unique needs. It will engage participants in a creative and challenging process that begins with questions of organizational needs and culminates with more detailed solution design. Each participant should leave the workshop with a solid grasp of ways to improve their own SharePoint deployments through better requirements elicitation and management.
The workshop employs a case study involving a complex SharePoint deployment as a means of enhancing the participant learning experience
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The objectives of this workship are to introduce skills, concepts and strategies to:
- Introduce participants to the roles and responsibilities of business analysts (or those who perform the requirements management function) within a SharePoint deployment
- Familiarize participants with the challenges and opportunities of SharePoint deployments
- Provide training that is consistent with the BABOK
- Build the capabilities of participants so that they can successfully develop and manage a SharePoint deployment and be a productive and contributing member of the project team
- Engage participants in interactive exercises designed to build their skills and confidence
- Familiarize participants with best practices in business analysis and requirements definition
- Provide a base of knowledge for additional business analysis learning, either self-directed or otherwise
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This workship is 50 percent lecture and 50 percent interactive exercises.
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Currently there are no professional exams for this course. However, PMI certified Project Manager Professionals (PMPs) earn 14 Professional Development Units (PDUs) by attending.
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The course materials, lectures, and lab exercises are in English. To benefit fully from our instruction, students need an understanding of the English language and completion of the prerequisites.
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Day 1
Module 1: Introduction to the workshop
This module introduces the subject, describes the course layout, and allows participants to get to know one another.
Module 2: The opportunities and Challenges of Sharepoint deployment
This module describes the organization opportunities that can be exploited with the deployment of SharePoint and the major challenges of Sharepoint deployments.
Module 3: The definition of requirements and the challenges of requirements management
This module describes the technical and non-technical challenges of identifying and managing requirements and describes the elements of �good� requirements. It also identifies the differences between business and system requirements and engages participants in requirements definition exercises.
Module 4: The link between requirements definition and management and project management
Because a SharePoint deployment occurs within the framework of a project, this module introduces participants to the critical processes of project management with a focus on project initiation, project scope definition, and project risk management.
Module 5: The requirements cycle
This module presents the IIBA�s requirements cycle and the major activities the business analyst engages in for each of the six processes in that cycle.
Module 6: Enterprise analysis
This module describes the activities engaged in by business analysts to create and manage the business architecture of the enterprise as it relates to the SharePoint deployment to include project prioritization, feasibility studies, the preparation of business cases, and process improvement.
Day 2
Module 7: Requirements planning and management
This module describes the activities necessary for the business analyst to plan for and deploy an effective requirements elicitation and management process for the SharePoint deployment. Participants are challenged to create a requirements management plan for the deployment.
Module 8: Requirements elicitation
This module describes the challenges and purposes of requirements elicitation and presents the major requirements elicitation methods. Participants are provided the opportunity to deploy several of those methods.
Module 9: Requirements analysis and documentation
In this module, participants are provided an overview of the role of requirements documentation and analysis, and the three major types of analytic methods are described. Parts 1, 2, and 3 of this module describe data and behavior models, process flow models, and usage models and their application to the SharePoint deployment.
Module 10: Requirements communication
In this module, participants are shown the importance of effective communications within the requirements cycle and introduced to the challenge of selecting, preparing, and presenting the requirements package to stakeholders.
Module 11: Solution assessment and verification
In this module, participants will explore the roles of the business analyst in ensuring that delivered products and services meet the defined requirements, tracing requirements to functions and tests, and interacting with users to make implementation as smooth as possible.
Module 12: Workshop wrap-up
This module wraps up the workshop, gives participants a chance to ask remaining questions, and allows them to evaluate the workshop.
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