COURSE
Eliciting and managing requirements
Master the art of eliciting and setting applicable and efficient requirements by transforming identified needs into clear and actionable requirements.
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Course details
København V
22 October 2026
Duration: 2 days
DKK 11,500.00 - 12,500.00
Prices are excluding VAT.
English
Efficient and applicable requirements
This course delves into the methodologies and best practices of using requirements in product and service development. Participants will learn and practice how to elicit, set and manage requirements, which must be validated, verified and adapted as the project and its boundaries evolve. When don properly requirements support efficient project management, development, collaboration and communication with stakeholders inside and outside your company.
Day 1 will focus on eliciting and setting efficient and applicable requirements for your project. This is done with a focus on gaining knowledge from users, customers, and other stakeholders to elicit the requirements. Setting precise requirements is important, which is practiced using the Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax (EARS) ruleset. The formulated requirements are put into a performance specification to ensure efficient registration and communication of the set requirements.
Day 2 focuses on managing the requirements within your company. With methods like House of Quality, the requirement sources become traceable, and the knowledge can be transferred from one department to the other. The set requirements call for assigning responsibilities, e.g. with RACI charts, handling risks and mitigation. Handling conflicting requirements and prioritising them can be done with the weighted criteria evaluation matrix.
The course is developed and taught by product and service developers with extensive project management experience. Throughout the course, they complement theoretical knowledge with concrete methods and best practice.
The course is for you who set and manage requirements
The course requires no previous knowledge of working with requirement and can be relevant to those who work with eliciting, setting and managing requirements and want to structure the process. The course is well suited to people who are both new and experienced in manage requirements and those who work primarily with either the project team, leaders or stakeholders.
The course is for:
- Project managers who use requirements as a part of managing projects
- Product developers who use requirements as a framework for development projects
- Product owners who elicit, set or manage requirements in a backlog during projects
- Business analysts who elicit requirements and want to be clear when communicating with stakeholders
- Other stakeholders involved in eliciting, setting, managing, or overseeing project requirements
The benefit for you – after completing the course, you will be able to:
The course gives you a solid understanding of the process of eliciting, setting, and managing requirements based on user needs, strategic intelligence, production issues, marketing demands, and how to handle non-verified gut feelings. After the course, you will have lots of applicable knowledge, methods, and tools, as well as a network of equal-minded people you can spar with afterwards and you will be able to:
- Understand the methodologies and techniques to transform vague stakeholder needs into actionable requirements for any project with user story cards
- Transform demands and wishes from production, marketing, and other departments into valuable development boundaries
- Use methods like objectives tree to divide your project into smaller parts to gain concrete requirements for each part
- Understand and use effectively the significant impact of word choice and punctuation in drafting requirements for accuracy, clarity, and detail in requirement management
- Understand what constitutes a reasonable requirement, ensuring they are clear, concise, and actionable e.g. with the EARS ruleset
- Set up and organise requirements for clarity and ease of reference e.g. in requirement specifications, backlogs, and similar methods
- Use the tool “The House of Quality” to combine engineer requirements with user needs and wishes to benchmark potential design changes in effort vs outcome.
- Ensure the ongoing alignment with requirements
- Use RACI charts to address responsible, accountable, and other stakeholders for each requirement
- Use of success criteria for giving development projects direction and being a basis for evaluation
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