IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering - Foundation Level Training Course

Fundamentals 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 perspectives within RE.
• Fundamental Principles:
  • Stakeholder Analysis: identifying and categorizing stakeholders.
  • Quality of Requirements: ensuring they are Correct, Complete, Consistent, and Unambiguous.
  • The cost of change curve and the critical importance of addressing requirements early.
• Lab 1: Exercise in stakeholder mapping and requirement quality assessment.

Requirements Elicitation and Elaboration

• Practices for Requirements Elaboration:
  • Elicitation Techniques: A detailed look at interviews, workshops (such as Joint Application Design), observation, and prototyping.
  • Domain Analysis: Identifying domain concepts and constructing domain models.
  • Use Cases: Defining actors, system boundaries, and the main success scenario.
  • Scenarios: Developing specific use scenarios and acceptance criteria.
• Lab 2: Drafting Use Case descriptions and User Stories based on a provided scenario.

Requirements Specification & Documentation

• Work Products and Documentation Practices:
  • The Requirements Specification: Structure and content of an SRS (Software Requirements Specification).
  • Notations: Introduction to standard modeling notations, including UML (Use Case and Activity Diagrams) and BPMN.
  • Mockups and Prototypes: Utilizing wireframes and prototypes to validate requirements with stakeholders.
• Lab 3: Modeling a business process with BPMN and a system interaction using UML.

Requirements Management and Process Integration

• Management Practices for Requirements:
  • Traceability: Creating forward and backward traceability matrices.
  • Change Management: Managing requirements change requests (RFC) and version control.
  • Configuration Management: Treating requirements artifacts as formal work products.
• Process and Working Structure:
  • Integrating RE into project management frameworks (SDLC, Scrum, Kanban).
  • Applying risk management principles in requirements engineering.
  • Negotiation and conflict resolution strategies for requirements.
• Lab 4: Building a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and maintaining a Change Request log.

Tooling and Certification Preparation

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