IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering - Foundation Level Training Course

Essentials of Requirements Engineering

• Introduction and Overview:
  • Defining Requirements Engineering (RE) and Business Analysis (BA).
  • The RE Process Model: covering Elicitation, Elaboration, Specification, and Validation.
  • Exploring the "V-Model" and Agile viewpoints within RE.
• Core Principles:
  • Stakeholder Analysis: identifying and categorizing stakeholders.
  • Requirement Quality: understanding characteristics such as Correct, Complete, Consistent, and Unambiguous.
  • The cost of change curve and why early requirements are critical.
• Lab 1: Exercise on stakeholder mapping and assessing requirement quality.

Requirements Elicitation and Elaboration

• Methods for Elaborating Requirements:
  • Elicitation Techniques: In-depth look at interviews, workshops (Joint Application Design), observation, and prototyping.
  • Domain Analysis: recognizing domain concepts and constructing domain models.
  • Use Cases: Defining Actors, system boundaries, and the main success scenario (Use Case specification).
  • Scenarios: Formulating specific use scenarios and acceptance criteria.
• Lab 2: Writing Use Case descriptions and User Stories based on a given scenario.

Requirements Specification & Documentation

• Deliverables and Documentation Standards:
  • The Requirements Specification: Structure and content of an SRS (Software Requirements Specification).
  • Notations: Introduction to standard modeling notations: UML (Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams) and BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation).
  • Mockups and Prototypes: Utilizing wireframes and prototypes to confirm requirements with stakeholders.
• Lab 3: Modeling a business process with BPMN and a system interaction using UML.

Requirements Management and Process Integration

• Managing Requirements:
  • Traceability: Forward and backward traceability matrices.
  • Change Management: Managing requirements change requests (RFC) and version control.
  • Configuration Management: Managing requirements artifacts as deliverables.
• Process and Operational Structure:
  • Integrating RE into project management (SDLC, Scrum, Kanban).
  • Risk management in requirements engineering.
  • Negotiation and conflict resolution in requirements.
• Lab 4: Developing a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and managing a Change Request log.

Tooling and Certification Preparation

• Tool Support:
  • Overview of Computer-Supported Requirements Engineering (CSRE) tools.
  • Key features in RE tools (versioning, traceability, collaboration).
  • Best practices for data exchange (XMI, XML) between tools.
• Exam Preparation:
  • Review of key syllabus topics.
  • Analysis of common exam pitfalls.
  • Guided practice of multiple-choice exam questions.
  • Information on the ACB (Approved Certification Body) exam process.
• Final Activity: Mock exam session and Q&A.