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Course Outline

  1. Understanding Requirements Management
    • Definition of Requirements Management
    • Key Tasks in Requirements Management
    • Goals and Benefits of Requirements Management
    • Creating a Requirements Management Plan
    • Relevant Standards
  2. Requirements Information Model
    • Fundamental Concepts
    • Methods of Presentation
    • Building a Requirements Information Model
  3. Assigning Attributes and Views to Requirements
    • Objectives of Assigning Attributes
    • Utilizing an Attribute Scheme
    • Designing an Attribute Schema
    • Managing Changes to Attribute Schemas
    • Goals and Types of Views
    • Defining Views and Understanding Associated Risks
    • Optimizing Attribute Population and Creating Views
  4. Evaluating and Prioritizing Requirements
    • Core Principles of Evaluation
    • Prioritizing Requirements
    • Ad-Hoc Prioritization Techniques
    • Two-Criteria Classification
    • The 100-Dollar Technique
    • Analytical Prioritization Techniques
    • Combining Prioritization Techniques
  5. Version and Change Management
    • Versioning of Requirements
      • Version Control for Requirements and Documents
      • Configuring Requirements
      • Establishing a Requirements Baseline
      • Branching Requirements
    • Change Management for Requirements
      • Causes, Sources, and Timing of Requirement Changes
      • Types of Changes to Requirements
      • Analyzing and Documenting the Stability of Requirements
    • The Change Management Process
  6. Requirements Traceability
    • Reasons for Requirements Traceability
      • Meaning of Requirements Traceability
      • Importance of Traceability for Requirements and Artifacts
    • Different Traceability Views
    • Relationship Types for Traceability Connections
    • Methods for Presenting Traceability Relationships
      • Implicit and Explicit Documentation of Traceability
      • Bidirectional and Unidirectional Traceability Relationships
      • Ways to Present Traceability Relationships
    • Developing a Project-Specific Traceability Strategy
    • Creating and Utilizing Specific Traceability Models
      • A Process for Defining a Specific Traceability Model
      • Applying a Specific Traceability Model
    • Measures for Evaluating Implemented Traceability
    • Challenges in Tracing Non-textual Artifacts
  7. Variant Management for Requirements
    • Utilizing Requirement Variants
    • Methods for Explicitly Documenting Variants and Their Evaluation
    • Feature Modeling
  8. Reporting in Requirements Management
    • Goals and Benefits of Reporting in Requirements Management
    • Establishing a Reporting System in RM
      • Interfaces
      • Report Contents
      • Tips for Developing and Applying Reporting
      • Report Definition Process
    • Key Figures in Requirements Engineering
      • Key Figures in Requirements Management
      • Deriving Key Figures Using the Goal-Question-Metric Method
    • Risks and Problems in Reporting
  9. Managing Requirements Engineering Processes
    • Requirements Engineering as a Process
    • Parameters of the Requirements Engineering Process
    • Documenting the Requirements Engineering Process
    • Monitoring and Controlling the Requirements Engineering Process
    • Improving the Requirements Engineering Process
  10. Requirements Management in Agile Projects
    • Background Context
    • Requirements Management in Agile Projects
    • Mapping RM Activities to Scrum Activities
  11. Using Tools in Requirements Management
    • The Role of Tools in Requirements Management
    • Basic Procedure for Tool Selection
    • Data Exchange between Requirements Management Tools

Requirements

  • Basic foundations of requirements engineering
  • To be eligible to take the exam, candidates must hold either the "IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering – Foundation Level" certificate or the “Requirements Engineering” certificate from the British Computer Society (BCS).
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