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Requirements Engineering Training

3 days - £1195 +vat

This Requirements Engineering course is designed to be both practical and participative. Theoretical concepts are introduced and are then reinforced through practical exercises and a running case study where participants can apply the skills and techniques of analysis in a realistic project simulation.

Requirements Engineering Training Course Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Recognise the role of requirements analysis in systems development
Understand the Requirements Engineering approach
Describe the technical and interpersonal skills required of an analyst
Apply a range of requirements elicitation techniques, such as workshops, interviews, scenarios, observation, document analysis, prototyping and questionnaires
Interpret a model of the system data
Model requirements using Context and Use Case Diagrams
Document requirements in a Requirements Catalogue
Analyse, prioritise and validate requirements
Understand the principles and techniques required for effective requirements management

Requirements Engineering Training Course Content

1. The role of the analyst

The role and competencies of an analyst
Developing analyst competencies

2. The requirements engineering process

The importance of requirements engineering
A framework for requirements engineering
Requirements engineering in the systems development lifecycle
Characteristics of requirements engineering

3. Actors and viewpoints

Stakeholders in systems development projects
Roles and responsibilities in the requirements engineering process

4. Project initiation

The importance of the project initiation stage
The project initiation document

5. Facilitated workshops

The use of workshops to elicit, analyse and negotiate requirements
Structure of a facilitated workshop
Workshop roles
Facilitation skills
Stimulating creative thinking

6. Other requirements elicitation techniques

Observation and ethnographic studies
Activity sampling
Document and data source analysis
Questionnaires
Choosing the appropriate technique/s

7. Fact-finding Interviewing

Structure of a fact-finding interview
Questioning techniques
Documenting interviews

8. Documenting requirements

Functional and non-functional requirements
Technical and general requirements
The requirements catalogue
Interpreting class diagrams
Scoping systems and documenting requirements with use cases

9. Analysing requirements

Examining the requirements catalogue
Prioritising requirements (MoSCoW)
Checking for ambiguity and lack of clarity
Testability of requirements

10. Scenarios and prototyping

The use of scenarios to explore requirements
Use case descriptions as a method of documenting scenarios
The use of prototyping to explore requirements
Types of prototyping (throwaway, evolutionary etc.)
The dangers and difficulties of prototyping; managing prototyping exercises

11. Requirements management

Change and version control of requirements
Requirements traceability
The use of CASE tools in requirements engineering

12. Options

Developing and presenting business and technical options

13. Validating requirements

Validation techniques
Quality control in requirements engineering

ISEB certificates

This Requirements Engineering course prepares participants to sit the one-hour, open book, examination leading to the certificate in Requirements Engineering - offered by the Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB). This certificate is a core module for the ISEB diploma in Business Analysis.

In association with Metadata Training

Requirements Engineering Training Recommended Reading

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