Moreover, successful completion of this course prepares you to sit for the BCS Requirements Engineering exam upon completion.
Attendees should have experience at the level of:
Course, Introduction to Business Analysis Training: Defining Successful Projects, or
Course, BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis
In-Person
Online
Module 1: Introduction to Requirements Engineering
Framework for Requirements Engineering
Identifying the Requirements Engineering rationale
Planning and estimating requirements
Identifying the business rationale and inputs
Crafting the business case
Creating the Terms of Reference or Project Initiation Document (PID)
Building the Requirements
Categorizing requirements within the hierarchy
General business requirements, including legal and business policy
Technical policy requirements
Functional requirements
Non-functional requirements
Stakeholders in the Requirements Process
Project Stakeholders
Business Stakeholders
External stakeholders
Module 2: Requirements Elicitation
Types of knowledge
Explicit knowledge and ignorance
Identifying tacit knowledge and ignorance
Eliciting requirements from stakeholders
Planning elicitation meetings
Choosing the right people to interview
Applying elicitation techniques
Selecting the best interview methodology
Constructing questions that deliver results
Module 3: Requirements Engineering Modeling Techniques
Why model requirements?
Generating questions
Defining business rules
Cross-checking for consistency and completeness
Modeling the business context for the system
Developing a model to represent system processing requirements
Interpreting a data model
Module 4: Documenting Your Requirements
Documentation styles and levels of definition
Writing standard requirements
Employing user stories and use cases
Creating a Requirements Catalog
Identifying necessary attributes
Writing a requirements description
Non-functional requirements
Module 5: Requirements Analysis
Prioritizing and packaging requirements for delivery
Analyzing and prioritizing business needs
Allocating requirements
Organizing requirements
Optimizing business value
Evaluating dependencies between requirements
Ensuring well-formed requirements
Removing overlapping requirements
Identifying and negotiating conflicts between requirements
Removing ambiguity
Ensuring feasibility and testability
Prototyping requirements
Verifying requirements
Module 6: Validating Requirements
Applying validation skills
Selecting the best validation methods
Validation checklists
Types of reviews
Reviews, walk-throughs and inspections
Stakeholders and their areas of concern
Module 7: Requirements Management
Dealing with changing requirements
Types of changes
Frequency and magnitude of changes
The importance of traceability
Vertical traceability (to business objectives)
Horizontal traceability (from origin to deliver)
Traceability and ownership
