BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering

Course

In London

£ 1,300 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Class hours

    20h

  • Duration

    3 Days

Also delivered as inhouse/private course

The BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering provides delegates with the knowledge and tool set to elicit and manage project requirements.

Important information

Documents

  • Q20380 BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering.pdf

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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7-11 Moorgate, EC2R 6AF

Start date

On request

About this course

The course gives students a firm understanding of what a requirement is and how to turn a business problem into a reliable set of validated requirements. Poor requirements are the most prevalent reason software projects tend to fail.

The certificate is relevant to anyone requiring a general understanding or introduction to Business Analysis, including business analysts, business managers and their staff, business change managers and project managers.

None.

Certificate.

SQS has a experienced team of trainers, that are consultants and are actually working on this field currently.

After requesting information, you will be either emailed the relevant information or called to discussed your requirements in detail.

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Subjects

  • Project
  • Systems
  • Engineering
  • Analysis methodologies
  • Facilitation Skills
  • Stimulating creative thinking
  • Class diagrams
  • Development lifecycles
  • IT
  • Communication Skills

Course programme

This course covers the following:


The role of the analyst:

  • The role and competencies of the business analyst

The requirements engineering process:
  • The requirements engineering framework
  • Characteristics of requirements engineering
  • The importance of requirements engineering

Actors and viewpoints:

  • Stakeholders in business analysis projects
  • Roles and responsibilities in the requirements engineering process
  • Context diagrams and stakeholders

Project initiation:
  • The importance of the project initiation stage
  • The project initiation document

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

Documenting requirements:
  • General business requirements
  • Functional and non-functional requirements
  • The requirements catalogue
  • Interpreting class diagrams
  • Scoping systems and documenting requirements with use cases

Other requirements elicitation techniques:
  • Observation and ethnographic studies
  • Activity sampling
  • Document and data source analysis
  • Questionnaires
  • Choosing the appropriate technique/s

Analysing Requirements:
  • Examining the requirements catalogue
  • Prioritising requirements (MoSCow)
  • Checking for ambiguity and lack of clarity
  • Testability of requirements

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

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

Validating requirements:

  • Validation techniques
  • Quality control in requirements engineering

Requirements and systems development:

  • Development lifecycles
  • The link between requirements and systems development
  • Post-implementation review

BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering

£ 1,300 + VAT