Requirements Engineering Training

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.

We also provide private and in-company Requirements Engineering courses. Call +44 (0) 1273 622272 to discuss.

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

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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

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