Requirements Engineering Training

BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering

This Requirements Engineering training course presents a range of key techniques for discovering, analysing and documenting business and system requirements and places these within the context of our own ADAPT© framework for requirements engineering.

The emphasis of the training course is very much on providing participants with ‘hands on’ experience of actually using the techniques as they work through a realistic case study scenario. A comprehensive course manual supports the course and also provides a valuable ‘how to’ reference guide for participants to use in their day-to-day work.

BCS Certification

This Requirements Engineering training course prepares participants to sit the one-hour, open book, examination leading to the certificate in Requirements Engineering offered by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. This certificate is a core module for the Business Analysis Diploma. In addition to covering the full BCS syllabus, this course is approved as consistent with the IIBA BABoK version 2.0.

Course Objectives

At the end of this Requirements Engineering training 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

BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering Course Content

Rationale for requirements engineering

Problems in developing IT systems
The costs of errors
Knowledge types – explicit and tacit
Definition of a ‘requirement’
Hierarchy of requirements
Characteristics of requirements engineering
A framework for requirements engineering

The role of the analyst

Stakeholders in requirements engineering
Roles and responsibilities
User analysis

Requirements planning and management

The importance of planning
Project initiation and the project initiation document
Requirements management

Requirements elicitation 1 – interviewing

Introduction to elicitation techniques
Interview preparation
Structure of an interview
Documenting the interview

Requirements elicitation 2 – workshops

What is a workshop?
The benefits – and limitations – of a workshop
Workshop roles and responsibilities
Preparing for the workshop
Techniques to elicit information
Techniques for documenting workshop results

Requirements elicitation 3 – supplementary techniques

Observation, ethnographic studies and STROBE
Quantitative techniques – activity sampling
Document analysis
Record searching
Questionnaires
Special purpose records

Documenting requirements

What should be documented?
Contents of the requirements document
The requirements catalogue

Requirements analysis 1 – modelling the processes

What are we analysing and why?
Characteristics of good requirements
Framework for requirements analysis
Use case diagrams
Scope definition/re-definition
Checking use cases against requirements
The use of a context diagram

Requirements analysis 2 – modelling the data

Objects and classes – concepts
Classes and attributes
Associations and multiplicity
Building a class diagram
Using class diagrams to confirm business rules and data requirements
Checking models for consistency and completeness
The CRUD matrix

Requirements analysis 3 – categorisation and organisation

Organising requirements into a hierarchy
Categorising requirements – functional, nonfunctional,
technical and general
Structuring the requirements catalogue

Requirements analysis 4 – necessity and feasibility checking

Checking the relevance of requirements to business goals
Assessing the feasibility (business, technical, financial) of requirements

Requirements analysis 5 – quality control

Checking requirements against quality criteria
Identifying conflicting requirements
Resolving requirements conflicts – negotiating skills

Requirements analysis 6 – testability of requirements

Identifying acceptance criteria
The concept of business tolerances

Scenarios and prototyping

Purpose and use – for elicitation, clarification and validation
Developing scenarios
Diagrammatic approaches to scenario modelling
Use case descriptions to document scenarios
Rationale for prototyping
Throwaway versus evolutionary prototyping
The prototyping process
Scope and fidelity of prototypes
Dangers of prototyping

Requirements management – recap

Recap on features of requirements management
Requirements traceability – importance and processes
Baselining and version control
The change control process
Requirements re-use
Support tools (Computer Aided Software Engineering)
Requirements patterns

Validating requirements

The place of validation in the requirements engineering process
Validation versus verification
Issues that can arise at validation
Requirements validation process and the review meeting
Attributes to be checked by reviewers
Use of prototyping to validate requirements
The importance of sign-off

Delivering the requirements

The business case and the project lifecycle
Approaches to solution delivery – build versus buy
Development lifecycles
From analysis to design
Post-implementation review and benefits confirmation
Use of requirements in system maintenance

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