Requirements Engineering
Training
In London
Description
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Type
Training
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Location
London
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Duration
3 Days
The 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 also a core module for the ISEB Business Analysis Diploma. Suitable for: New and experienced business analysts, systems analysis and system developers, project managers and software testers, business executives and accountants wishing to broaden their knowledge.
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About this course
There are no pre-requisites for attendance on this course.
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Requirements Engineering
Course Content
The role of the analyst
- The role and competencies of an analyst
- Developing analyst competencies
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
Actors and viewpoints
- Stakeholders in systems development projects
- Roles and responsibilities in the requirements engineering process
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
- Workshop roles
- Facilitation skills
- Stimulating creative thinking
Other requirements elicitation techniques
- Observation and ethnographic studies
- Activity sampling
- Document and data source analysis
- Questionnaires
- Choosing the appropriate technique/s
Fact-finding Interviewing
- Structure of a fact-finding interview
- Questioning techniques
- Documenting interviews
Documenting and modelling requirements
- Functional and non-functional requirements
- Technical and general requirements
- The requirements catalogue
- Interpreting class diagrams
- Scoping systems and documenting requirements with use cases
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
- Types of prototyping (throwaway, evolutionary etc.)
- The dangers and difficulties of prototyping; managing prototyping exercises
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
Additional information
Students per class: 12
Requirements Engineering