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Value-Driven Product Requirements Workshop

Are your Market Requirements Documents (MRD's) value driven? Are you effectively communicating your customer and user needs to your development organization? Do you dread writing MRD's for your product or updates? Are you even sure what should be in an MRD and to what detail? And what's the difference between an MRD and PRD?


Delivering value means fulfilling user needs. This two-day workshop focuses on connecting user needs and goals to the system requirements through iterative and increasing levels of detail, as required for your organization (whether it's an MRD or PRD). The main thrust of the course is on software requirements, but the principles learned are applicable across any product that has real users as the primary design target. You will learn how to abstract the user needs and goals and appropriately bound the solution requirements such that your development team understands the WHY, WHO, and WHAT for the goal. This enables them to creatively and effectively provide the HOW to satisfy the user needs.

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Immediate and Long-Term Benefits

  • Move through the requirements process faster, reducing time to market
  • Communicate more accurately with Development, minimizing questions and re-work
  • Minimize "scope creep" due to missing requirements
  • Create winning products through identification of requirements that deliver real customer and user value

Specific topics include:

  • The requirements process and associated documents
  • Prep before you do requirements
  • Gathering and validating requirements
  • Defining product Stakeholders and User Personas
  • Writing Scenarios (User Stories) to bridge user problem to solution
  • Creating Actors and High Level Use Cases
  • Defining Functional and Non-Functional Requirements
  • Using Supplementary documentation
  • Testing for "Good Requirements"
  • Deciding level of detail for requirements
  • Prioritizing Requirements

Course Details

Registration Fee: $1,595
Length: Two days
Where: Bellevue, Washington
Format: Instructor-led training
Association Member Discounts: 10% off (see your notification email or event posting for discount code or contact us)
Special offer: Bring a colleague for $795! Call 866-647-5397 to take advantage of this offer.
Our Schedule-Friendly Cancellation Policy


Who Should Attend?

  • New product managers who need to quickly understand the scope, processes, methods, tools and deliverables of the job
  • Any product manager who wants faster professional growth, new ideas, and greater organizational effectiveness
  • Members of the product team who need a thorough grounding in processes involving cross-functional participation

Included in the Course

  • Two full days of live, highly interactive training led by expert instructors
  • All course materials, including document templates
  • All meals and refreshments and any applicable parking fees
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