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BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering
COURSE TYPE
Intermediate
Course Number
3510
Duration
3 Days
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This course presents an end-to-end Requirements Engineering framework. From the business case to the delivery of well-documented and well-formed requirements, high-quality requirements are crucial to delivering quality products. In addition, this course prepares you to take the BCS Requirements Engineering Practitioner Exam at the end of the course.
You Will Learn How To
- Link requirements backward to the business case and forward to the delivered product, process or service
- Identify the roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders in the requirements engineering process
- Describe the use of tools to support Requirements Engineering
- Apply the Requirements Validation process
Important Course Information
Prerequisites
- Course 211, Business Analysis Introduction: Defining Successful Projects, or
- Course 3507, BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis
Exam Information
- One hour, ‘open book’
- Written, based on a business scenario
- Pass mark is 50%
- If any special testing adjustments should be considered, please contact Customer Service at least two weeks before the event
Certification Information
- International Diploma in Business Analysis
- The BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, offers this internationally recognized certification, enabling you to take your skills around the world. The four modules required to apply for this certification include one foundation level course, and three practitioner level courses:
- BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis
- BCS Certificate in Business Analysis Practice Training
- BCS Certificate in Modelling Business Processes Training
- BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering Training
- The International Diploma requires a 50 minute oral examination with two examiners. The questions will require you to apply your business analysis knowledge and understanding to scenarios described by the oral examiners. For additional information see: https://www2.bcs.org/certifications/ba/international-diploma-in-business-analysis
- Upon passing your exam, BCS will contact you to activate your membership. Once activated you will be a BCS Associate Member and will have access to the wealth of benefits and support to help you in your career.
- BCS Associate membership provides exclusive access to resources, content and opportunities that will enrich your career.
- Note: This offer is only available once to each exam candidate. Exam candidates who have previously benefited from free Associate Membership will not be eligible for this offer again even if you have taken another qualifying BCS exam.
BCS Associate Membership
Course Outline
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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Attendee Benefits
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Earn 17 PDUs
PMI, the Registered Education Provider logo, PMP, CAPM, PMI-ACP,
and PMBOK are marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
This course is approved by PMI® for 17 professional development units (PDUs). For more on the Project Management Institute and a full list of courses approved for PDUs.
Technical : 15 PDUs
Leadership : 1 PDUs
Business & Strategic : 1 PDUs