Advanced Requirements Specification
Tom & Kai Gilb

Do you want to develop a common vocabulary between the marketing and systems engineering department?
Do you want to adopt a method to define the system requirements clearly and unambiguously?

About Advanced Requirements Specification This course is about specifying the top-level central requirements for any engineering project. It is NOT about detailed functional logic requirements for programmers. This course is about requirements from the stakeholder’s point of view; the primary expectations for funding the system; the success and failure criteria; the basis for determining priority; the basis for design and the basis for project management. We focus on the measurable, qualitative aspects of the project, also known as the values and benefits of the project. The course is built around a thorough, well-defined set of concepts, principles, specification rules and process descriptions; called ‘Planguage’; a planning language. The participant will get a practical insight into Planguage and the necessary documentation to continue to apply its ideas in real life projects. Advanced Requirements Specification using Planguage, will complement all current requirements engineering methods you use in your organization. Applying Planguage on your project will result in clear, unambiguous, measurable, testable requirements. The course will give you practical concrete tools to attack the problems of successful project management.

Tom Gilb Is a leading independent consultant and acknowledged expert in all aspects of systems planning and development arising in large, dynamic multinational organizations. Over the last 30 years he has developed and practiced advanced methods for setting quality requirements, designing, quality control and project management for IT projects, software projects, systems projects and organizational projects. Tom has written several books including "Principles of Software Engineering Management", "Software Inspection" and "Competitive Engineering". Kai Gilb (1968) Did his first course with Tom 1986, and started full time work with him in 1992, teaching, running workshops, consulting, starting up projects, saving projects, solving problems, lecturing, editing books and articles, writing course & lecture materials etc. Some of his contributions to the methods are to broaden the scope & at the same time focusing on essential fundamentals.

Who should attend?

This public course is intended for requirements specialists, project managers, software engineers, systems engineers, consultants, teachers, methods specialists and anybody interested in new and advanced methods for requirements and objectives.

Expected Results and Benefits of the Advanced Requirements Specification Course

• You will know substantially better (clearer) ways to specify critical requirements;
• You will have a way to integrate time, cost, quality and function in a single requirements specification;
• You will understand how to convert user/marketing/customer/stakeholder wishes into contractible clear specifications;
• You will become aware of a substantial body of knowledge about requirements, which you will have access to;
• You should be able to judge if your organization should learn more about these methods;
• You will understand how to turn ‘beautiful sentiments’ of values into hard measurables as the basis for engineering and project management;
• You will have a method which allows you to manage engineering and organizational development projects at the ‘systems’ level, rather than just the software code level.
• You will have the basic specification tools which are necessary for multidimensional control of the top critical aspects of your projects in design and project management phases.

Structure and Schedule of the Course

The course is composed of lectures and exercises (see below). The exercises will be carried out in small teams. Some exercises will be carried out on real (non confidential) requirements documents (both Dutch and English) from the participants. The number of participants is limited to no more than 28 per class to allow maximum opportunity to ask questions and raise issues.

Course Materials

You will receive a copy of Tom Gilb's new book "Competitive Engineering", published by Elsevier in 2005.
You will receive a binder with copies of all slides and examples.
Furthermore you will receive at the course a CD with lot's of Requirements, Evo and Inspection background materials.
Much of the course materials, and book chapters can also be found on, and downloaded free of any charges from Tom's web-site: www.gilb.com.

Course Location & Pricing

Course Location: Aristo Zalen Conference Center, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Price: EUR 1.400,- (excl. BTW/VAT). Hotel accommodations are not included in the course fee. Upon registration you will receive a list of hotels in the vicinity. The course price for successive participants from one organization is EUR 1.260,- (excl. BTW/VAT). We reserve ourselves the right to limit the number of registering participants per organization to four.
  

Registration for Public Offerings

Course registration for public offerings is handled by SPI Partners, logistics and invoicing are often times carried out by one of our partners.

Public Offering Payment and Cancellation Policy:

SPI Partners have the right to cancel the course at the latest 15 calendar days prior to the course's start date if fewer than 8 participants have registered at that time.
The invoice for this course will be sent by SPI Partners 15 calendar days prior to the course's start date. Payment is due before the course start date.
If you are unable to attend this course, your organization may delegate another individual from your organization instead of you until the morning of the start date of the course.
A cancellation fee of Euro 100,= (exclusing VAT) will be charged for cancellations received more than 15 calendar days prior to the course's start date.
Registrants whose cancellation is received after sending of the invoice, as well as no shows, are liable for payment of the entire fee for the course.
All prices are in Euro and exclude BTW/VAT.
We do not send invitation letters for obtaining a visum for The Netherlands.
 

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