Requirements Engineering

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Requirements Engineering is a Practitioner Certificate from the BCS Professional Certifications portfolio (formerly ISEB Certifications). It is also a core module of the BCS Business Analysis Diploma.

In order to deliver the system that the business really needs, the business analyst team must uncover the requirements which will lead to a working, cost-effective solution. With the use of a supporting case study, this course defines the types of requirements, the people involved in the elicitation process, the techniques of requirements analysis and the ways of prioritising requirements. It also explores different knowledge types and appropriate techniques for handling these.

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Audience: Who is this course for?

Those who are likely to become involved in gathering, documenting, managing and validating requirements to ensure that the project delivers the right system, including:

Business Analysts & Systems Analysts
Business Managers
Developers
Project Managers & Team Leaders
Quality Assurance & Quality Control Managers

Duration:

This is a 3 day course.

Benefits to the individual:

Recognised qualification in its own right and also module for BCS Diploma in Business Analysis
Gives confidence to unearth the requirements to lead to a working, cost-effective solution
Provides a framework, skills and techniques that will enable individuals to identify and prioritise requirements

Benefits to the Business:

Increased efficiency as the correct requirements are identified and prioritised
Gives the business a common understanding and visibility of current requirements

Prerequisites and evening study:

There are no pre-requisites for the course. Some evening work is required during the course.

Course Objectives:

This course will enable delegates to:

Understand the requirements life cycle:
- elicitation
- analysis
- management
- validation
Understand problems of deriving a clear and acceptable requirements document
Understand how to manage an evolving requirements document
Prepare for the BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering

Course Content:

Lifecycle

Business plans and objectives

Nature, Problems and Hierarchy of Requirements

The business case and rationale
Terms of reference / project initiation document (PID)
Functional requirements / non-functional requirements
General / technical requirements and service level agreements

Stakeholders in the Requirements Process

Project stakeholders
Business stakeholders
External stakeholders

Requirements Elicitation and Documentation

Terms of reference
Elicitation techniques
Requirements catalogue

Use of Models in Requirements Engineering

Developing a process / functional model
Read a static (data) model

Knowledge Types

Tacit, semi-tacit
Non-tacit, taken-for-granted

Requirements Analysis

Prioritising requirements
Congruence with business objectives
Overlapping requirements
Identifying and negotiating conflicts between requirements
Requirements ambiguity, realism / feasibility and testability

Requirements Management

Stable and volatile requirements
Management of change to requirements
Traceability and ownership
CASE for requirements specification

Benefits Confirmation

Requirements testing / user acceptance testing
Post-implementation review
Roles of requirements actors

Requirements Validation

Reviews, walkthroughs and inspections
Prototyping
Sign-off requirements document

Exam details:

Delegates can take an optional one-hour written examination at the end of the course. Successful candidates are awarded the BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering

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