Writing Project Requirements

Course descriptions/goals:

Writing well-formed project requirements can be a challenging task for any project team. It involves taking elicited and analyzed requirements information and understandably documenting that information. In Writing Project Requirements, Susan Weese guides you through the necessary technical writing skills, how to use a style guide, and what to look for in a requirements quality checklist. Building an understandable requirements document involves using requirements document templates for both content and structure. 

Topics include:

• Writing well-formed requirements   
• Reviewing essential technical writing skills 
• Applying a requirements style guide 
• Specifying requirements using a checklist
• Defining structured language

Target audience description/skill level: Business analysts and IT project team members who need to acquire or fine-tune their requirements development and technical writing skills.