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Course : Designing and Writing Specifications: Best Practices

Expressing needs, functions, and requirements

Designing and Writing Specifications: Best Practices

Expressing needs, functions, and requirements

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4,3 / 5


The specifications are the starting point for any project, and provide a structured framework. This course will enable you to better understand the challenges of functional analysis and acquire best practices for designing, formalizing, and mastering the specifications’ lifecycle.


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The specifications are the starting point for any project, and provide a structured framework. This course will enable you to better understand the challenges of functional analysis and acquire best practices for designing, formalizing, and mastering the specifications’ lifecycle.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Identify and work with your stakeholders
Frame the expression of need
Analyze functional and technical needs
Structure the different parts of the specifications

Intended audience
Project managers (non-computing), designers, organizers, project owners, users.

Prerequisites
Be in a position to write a set of specifications for a product or service in the near term (not specific to an information system).

Practical details
Hands-on work
"Common thread" case study. Feedback. Standard deliverable plans and corresponding examples. Multiple-choice quiz.
Teaching methods
Active and participatory instructional methods. Alternating theory and practice, and how it applies to the participants’ context and experience

Course schedule

1
Setting the general framework

  • Learning concepts and definitions.
  • Knowing different types of specifications.
Storyboarding workshops
Overview of the common-thread case and additional cases. The participants identify cases familiar to themselves.

2
Detecting challenges and stakeholders

  • Understanding the demand, objectives, and challenges
  • Detecting technical, financial, and time constraints.
  • Identifying stakeholders and interactors.
Hands-on work
Creating a demand summary memo for the common-thread case.

3
Implement an effective methodology

  • Discerning and eliciting the actual needs.
  • Performing a functional analysis of the needs: Use functions and corresponding requirements.
  • Identifying, formalizing, and ranking the functions and technical requirements needed.
Hands-on work
Clarifying, analyzing, and rephrasing expressed or implicit needs. Identifying functions and requirements in the context of the common-thread case and ranking them.

4
Writing the functional specifications

  • Assembling the various components to create a set of functional specifications.
  • Examining and comparing different specifications to learn their common practices.
Hands-on work
Applying notions and practices learned to the participants’ own settings.

5
Drafting the specifications for overseeing the execution

  • Identifying and formalizing the requirements to be met for executing the project.
  • Ensuring delivery in accordance with the functional specifications.
  • Finding the right level to maintain control over execution.
  • Being careful not to encroach on the role of the executors/project managers.
Hands-on work
Expressing certain requirements specific to overseeing execution in the context of the common-thread case.

6
Mastering the use of specifications

  • Centering your RFPs on the specifications.
  • Supporting changes in the specification's lifecycle.
Hands-on work
Eliciting strengths and things to watch for when implementing the methods presented. Multiple-choice quiz on what was learned.


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4,3 / 5
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