Course Highlights

This intensive three-day course develops the skills needed to work with requirements for stakeholders.

Those who opt for this course will learn to ensure that requirements have various perspectives, that conflicts are negotiated,that they are realistic and testable.

Overview

No specific pre-requisites for this course, however this course is for people wishing to acquire the skill set for establishing system requirements.

Similarly, it is for those wishing to attain the BCS Business Systems Development Certificate in Requirements Engineering.

Details of Content of the course are below :

The Requirements Engineering Process

• Lifecycle for business change;
• Business plans and objectives;
• Problems with requirements;
• The stakeholders involved in RE;
• RE process overview

Requirements and the Business Context

• Hierarchy of requirements;
• TOR/PID;
• Functional requirements;
• Non-Functional requirements;
• General/Technical requirements;
• Service level requirements

Eliciting and Documenting Requirements

• Problems with elicitation;
• Different stakeholders viewpoints;
• Elicitation techniques;
• Facilitated workshops in detail;
• Prioritisation of requirements;
• The structure and contents of a requirement

Interviewing for Requirements

• Interviewing for RE;
• The interviewing lifecycle;
• Planning, preparing, conducting and following up the interview;
• Questioning strategies

Use of Models in Requirements Engineering

• Developing a process/functional model;
• Reading a static (data) model

Analysing and Negotiating Requirements

• Iterating requirements;
• Congruence with business objectives;
• Analysing requirements against: Classification,
• Priority, Ambiguity, Testability, Risk, Granularity, Omissions, Conflicts, Overlaps, and Achievability;
• Resolving conflicts

Validating Requirements

• Requirements validation;
• Requirements reviews;
• Validation checklist;
• Validation by prototyping

Managing Requirements

• The principles of requirements management (RM);
• How the ‘4 pillars’ support RM;
• The baseline mechanism;
• The role of the Change Control Board

Benefits Confirmation

• Requirements testing/user acceptance testing;
• Post-implementation review;
• Roles of requirements actors

Case Study

A case study allows the delegates to undertake a simulated requirements engineering assignment to practise the new skills.

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What's Included

This course is run in association with Amatis Training

Course Includes

This course includes :

• Internationally recognised formal qualification from the British Computer Society
• Opportunity for career progression
• Supports professional approach to the Systems Lifecycle Process

Requirements

• Candidates with special exam requirements should consult the BCS web site (www.bcs.org.uk) for the BCS Special Needs policy. BCS must be advised (through us) at least four weeks in advance of any special requirements.
• Please note: If taking an exam, candidates are advised that Photo ID must provided (Driving Licence, Passport and named work ID badges are all acceptable). This a BCS requirement and delegates will be turned away from the examination if Photo ID is not produced.