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Analyst’s Guide to Gathering Product & Project Requirements
Master the PMI Business Analysis approach—plan, elicit, and validate requirements to avoid costly late surprises.
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- 3—5 August 2026, San Diego, CA
- LevelIntermediate
- PDUs21
- Duration3-Day Training
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Overview
Every Business Analyst has experienced that sinking feeling when a major requirement pops up late in the project, often impacting scope, schedule, and cost. Through their Business Analysis Standard and Practice Guides, PMI has set forth a structured approach for planning, eliciting, modeling, prioritizing, verifying, validating & monitoring product and project requirements.
The course begins with discussions on the evolving role of the Business Analyst throughout PMI’s Business Analysis processes, Knowledge Areas, and Process Groups. A case study will illustrate the needs assessment process, concluding with the development of key artifacts: a business case, benefits management plan, situation statements and charter. Training will move on to group activities, games and case studies that reinforce techniques for tailoring business analysis activities across specific product & project life cycles. Teams will work together to prepare tangible takeaways including Scoring Models, Personas, Stakeholder Analysis, & Risk Log.
Related Topics
- Project Management
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Scope Management
What You'll Learn
Upon completion of this training, learners will be able to:
- Identify the evolving roles, capabilities, and influence of the Business Analyst.
- Lead key stakeholders in developing a high-level needs assessment & gap analysis to identify and address strategic problems and opportunities.
- Deploy a variety of techniques to tailor requirements elicitation and elaboration for plan-driven (predictive), hybrid (iterative or incremental), or change-driven (Agile) environments including: Vision Box, Elevator Statement, Purpose Alignment Model, Roadmaps, Types of Voting.
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Business Acumen
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About the Instructor(s)
Joyce Brown, PMP
Joyce D. Brown is managing director of W. W Mentorprises, Inc. She instructs on project, program, and portfolio management at the University of Connecticut School of Business. She is also an adjunct professor of project and program management for several graduate programs at UConn’s School of Business / Stamford campus. Previously, Ms. Brown spent more than fifteen years as vice president of operations for three global luxury goods companies. In these positions her responsibilities included logistics and distribution, construction, procurement, production and manufacturing, after sales service, and security. Her earlier experience includes a role as a retail / wholesale industry consulting manager at a “Big 4” consulting firm. Ms. Brown holds a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Middle Tennessee State University.
Thomas McCabe, PMP
Thomas F. McCabe is managing director of W. W. Mentorprises, Inc. He instructs on project, program, and portfolio management at the University of Connecticut School of Business. He is also an adjunct professor at Fairfield University’s Dolan School of Business where he teaches project management at the graduate and undergraduate levels. His previous positions include e-Infrastructure consulting manager at a “Big 4” consulting firm, and vice president, global risk management for a major financial services organization. Professional expertise includes: eBusiness transformation, PMO establishment and organization, project risk assessment, business continuity planning, software selection, new product development, and business process re-engineering. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Fordham University and a master's certificate in project management from George Washington University. Mr. McCabe has held several global volunteer positions for PMI. He was a co-founder of PMI’s eBusiness Specific Interest Group (SIG) and formerly served as its chairman & executive advisory chair. He also served as vice-chairman of programs for both the PMO SIG and Financial Services SIG. He is cited in the PMBOK® Guide — 5th Edition as a contributing subject matter expert.
