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Specification WritingA course/workshop presented over two days |
Introduction | Training Objective | Course Outline | Course Materials | Who Should Attend | About the Presenter | Course Schedule
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This course is recognised by Engineers Australia for CPD purposes (40 hours) |
Training Objective
Course Outline
1. Transforming Requirements into Requirements Specifications
- What is a specification?
- How requirements specifications relate to requirements
- How requirements specifications relate to configuration baselines
- Using DIDs and templates
- Using a requirements database to automate specification production
2. Requirements Flowdown in Specifications
- The specification tree
- Special considerations for interface requirements
3. Specification Types and Formats
- Types of requirements specification
- IEEE specification standards
- US Military and other international specification standards
- Score sheet for public domain specification standards
4. Structuring Your Specification
- What to put in your system requirements specifications, the statement of work (or equivalent) and the conditions of contract
- Workshop - allocation of requirements to the specification, the statement of work and conditions of contract
- Structuring a statement of work
- Structuring a system requirements specification
- Dealing with variants
- Workshop - structuring a specification to deal with variants
- States and Modes
- Workshop - structuring a specification to deal with states and modes
- Functional versus design oriented specifications
- Differences
- When to use each type
- Function and performance
- Workshop - classifying requirements as functional or design
- Workshop - writing a functionally oriented specification
- Workshop - writing a design oriented specification
- Other requirements types
- Annexes, appendices and applicable documents
5. Specification Writing
- Review of requirements quality
- Requirement structural template
- Workshop - expressing strong requirements
- Requirements constructs
- Shall, should, will and may
- Linking
- Cross-referencing
- Workshop - linking and cross-referencing
- defining terms
- Workshop - defining terms
- Context dependence
- Reference to applicable documents
- Use of precedence
- Workshop - using precedence
- Using success criteria to express otherwise vague requirements
- Workshop - using success criteria
- Workshop - specification of key requirements for a system
- Paragraph headings
- Use of supporting data
- Mission profiles/use cases
- Baseline designs
- Benchmarks
- Linking the specification to the statement of work or conditions of contract
- Test specifications
- Workshop - evaluation of example specifications
6. Bibliography
- Additional reference material
Training Materials
For each seminar attended, you will be provided with:
- comprehensive seminar notes
- a workbook containing workshop exercises
- workshop model solutions
- checklists, forms and charts which you can use immediately in your projects
- a CD-Rom with extensive documents and resources
- access to PPI's Systems Engineering Goldmine
Who Should Attend These Seminars/Workshops?
Requirements Analysis and Specification Writing is designed for acquirer, supplier and developer personnel who, in any capacity, deal with requirements.
About the Presenter - Mr. Robert Halligan, FIE Australia
Your presenter, Mr Robert Halligan, FIE (Aust), is Managing Director of Project Performance (Australia) Pty Limited. He was also founder of Technology Australia Pty
Limited, a consultancy company which received remarkable success in guiding its clients
to success in winning and performing on major defence and aerospace projects. Mr Halligan
has previously held senior project-related engineering and management positions with
Rockwell, Andrew Corporation and the Department of Defence (Australia). Mr Halligan has
honed his experience over twenty years in the engineering of large communications,
computing and electronic warfare systems... |  |
Course Schedule
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