Defining and Managing Requirements - beginning of term

My final semester!!  I will be done - I will have my MBA.  I say that to impress my jubilance in taking this class.

Given your knowledge/skills/experience/confidence at the start of these courses, which course objectives look familiar to you already? 

Working in a project environment for 20 years, I am familiar with:

1. Identify where the requirements gathering process fits into the overall project lifecycle. 

2. Demonstrate the processes of discovering, eliciting and managing requirements. 

3. Evaluate the project manager’s role in requirements gathering. 

6. Evaluate the relationship between requirements gathering and project success. 

Given your knowledge/skills/experience/confidence at the start of these courses, which course objectives look either difficult or completely unfamiliar to you? 

I am familiar with #2 but I hope to learn more because I don't think you can ever have enough knowledge in eliciting requirements.  Objectives 4 & 5 will be a bit more challenging to me.

4. Compare the process of defining requirements in various development methodologies, including agile development. 

5. Develop a set of best practices in gathering and managing requirements. 

How do these courses fit into your career plans and dreams? Are the objectives crucial to your success, or will accomplishing the objectives simply be good general background information for you?

All of these are absolutely essential for my career.  While I don't have aspirations to be a project manager (though one can never tell where you will end up), working in a project environment, it is nice to be as familiar with all phases of the project lifecycle and best practices. While I work as a systems analyst, it is my responsibility to make sure our requirements are accurate and complete.  I need to make sure that they are then translated into design for our developers.  

What are your thoughts as you set out to accomplish these objectives?

I am excited to learn more about managing requirements and hope that at the end of the class, it will make a noticeable improvement in my job performance.  I especially enjoy reading about my peers' careers and their perspectives to further enable my learning.

Stacy