What Is
Requirements
Discovery?
Requirements Discovery captures every single thing about being a Business Analyst - the ability to work with stakeholders, conduct requirements elicitation sessions, engage in productive collaboration, build strong, long-lasting relationships, and ultimately produce tangible requirements artifacts documents for the delivery team.
If I had to pick a single competency area that really makes all the difference, and helps to systematically upskill your BA game, it would be, hands down, Requirements Discovery.
- Sergey Shimansky, CBAP, Founder of BACareerMentor.com
Introducing
Discovery Mastermind
Discovery Mastermind is my flagship, 3-in-1 educational package of everything you need to know about requirements discovery, starting with preparing, creating an agenda, and assembling the team, to running the sessions, navigating conflicts, producing tangible artifacts, and transitioning discovery materials to the delivery team.
Module 1
Discovery Crash Course
This online on-demand course is designed to teach IT business analysts, consultants, and product owners how to plan, execute, and complete requirements discovery for software development projects.
What You'll Learn in Module 1
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How to Prepare, Execute, and Wrap-up a Discovery Engagement
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What is a Discovery Team and What is the Role of the Business Analyst on the Team?
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How to Create a Discovery Agenda and Prepare for the Meetings
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What are the Different Types of Discovery Meetings: Show-and-Tell, Interviews, Workshops, and Others?
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What Artifacts Should be Created as a Result of Discovery: UI Wireframes, Backlog, User Stories for Sprint #1?
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How to Facilitate Knowledge Transfer and Transition Artifacts to the Delivery Team
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Specifics of Online/Offline Discovery Workshops
Module 1 Curriculum
Module 2
Discovery Preparation Masterclass
This 5-day online masterclass is designed to teach IT business analysts essential skills and techniques to effectively prepare for requirements discovery workshops and other collaborative elicitation sessions with the project stakeholders.
What You'll Learn in Module 2
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We will immerse ourselves in a real-world project and prepare for a discovery day by day, within one work week, from Monday to Friday.
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Our client is a manufacturer and seller of musical instruments located in the United States. This company is expanding its business and looking to implement new features and capabilities, such as international shipping and financing. Their current website and e-commerce infrastructure cannot support such growth, so they reached out to us and invited our development team for on-site discovery workshops.
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Every day of the week we will focus on actual deliverables for successful onsite discovery:
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Collect the initial pre-sales information.
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Assemble the discovery team.
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Create a space for team collaboration.
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Utilize standard questionnaires and feature lists.
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Create a discovery agenda for on-site workshops.
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Assemble slides for the kickoff presentation.
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Module 2 Curriculum
Module 3
Documents Library
To make everything I teach about discovery even more action-oriented and practical for you, I’ve hand-picked and produced the most commonly used document artifacts that successful teams deliver as a result of their discovery engagements.
What's Inside Documents Library?
Your Certificate!
What Students Say
Thomas
The content and essential training points are clearly explained. The case study provides richness which helps bring to topic to life.
Anastasia
Useful course, to the point, with high lights and extraordinary recommendations
Susan
Good overview of requirements elicitation!
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Your Instructor
Hello! My name is Sergey Shimansky and I am honored to be your instructor.
My mission is simple - to help you navigate your career journey, and I do this by providing the most relevant, time-proven, and authentic educational content.
I'm currently serving as the Head of Experience Consulting and Business Analysis at a global leader in service development, digital platform engineering, and digital product design.
In my more than 17 years of experience building digital products, I have led numerous e-commerce and content management projects for Fortune 500 organizations across the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union.
My professional certifications include: Certified Business Analyst Professional™ (CBAP®), Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), Scaled Agile (SAFe®) Agilist, and ICAgile Certified Professional