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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

  1. Understanding Requirements Management? 
    • Defining Requirements Management 
    • Core Tasks within Requirements Management 
    • Objectives and Advantages of Requirements Management 
    • Developing a Requirements Management Plan 
    • Relevant Industry Standards 
  2. Requirements Information Model
    • Fundamental Concepts 
    • Methods of Representation 
    • Constructing a Requirements Information Model 
  3. Assigning Attributes and Creating Views of Requirements 
    • Purposes of Attribute Assignment 
    • Application of an Attribute Scheme 
    • Designing an Attribute Schema 
    • Managing Changes to Attribute Schemas 
    • Purposes and Categories of Views 
    • Defining Views and Associated Risks 
    • Optimizing Attribute Data and View Generation 
  4. Assessing and Prioritizing Requirements 
    • Foundational Principles of Evaluation 
    • Strategies for Prioritizing Requirements 
    • Ad-Hoc Prioritization Methods 
    • Two-Criteria Classification 
    • The 100-Dollar Technique 
    • Analytical Prioritization Techniques
    • Integrating Multiple Prioritization Techniques
  5. Version and Change Control
    • Versioning Strategies for Requirements 
      • Controlling Versions of Requirements and Documentation
      • Requirements Configuration Management
      • Establishing Requirements Baselines 
      • Branching Strategies for Requirements 
    • Managing Changes to Requirements 
      • Origins, Sources, and Timing of Requirement Modifications 
      • Categories of Requirement Changes 
      • Analyzing and Documenting Requirement Stability 
    • The Change Management Process
  6. Requirements Traceability 
    • Rationale for Requirements Traceability 
      • The Concept of Requirements Traceability 
      • The Importance of Traceability Between Requirements and Deliverables 
    • Various Perspectives on Traceability
    • Types of Relationships in Traceability
    • Representation Methods for Traceability Relationships
      • Implicit vs. Explicit Documentation of Traceability 
      • Bidirectional vs. Unidirectional Traceability Links 
      • Formats for Presenting Traceability Relationships 
    • Developing a Project-Specific Traceability Strategy 
    • Building and Utilizing Specific Traceability Models 
      • Process for Defining a Specific Traceability Model 
      • Application of a Specific Traceability Model 
    • Metrics for Assessing Implemented Traceability 
    • Challenges in Tracing Non-Textual Deliverables 
  7. Managing Requirement Variants 
    • Application of Requirement Variants 
    • Explicit Documentation and Evaluation of Variants 
    • Feature Modeling Techniques 
  8. Reporting in Requirements Management 
    • Purposes and Benefits of Reporting in Requirements Management 
    • Implementing a Reporting System in RM 
      • System Interfaces 
      • Components of a Report 
      • Guidelines for Developing and Applying Reporting
      •  The Report Definition Process
    • Key Metrics in Requirements Engineering 
      • Key Metrics in Requirements Management 
      • Deriving Metrics Using the Goal-Question-Metric Method 
    • Risks and Challenges in Reporting 
  9. Managing Requirements Engineering Processes
    • Requirements Engineering as a Defined 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 
    • Context and Background 
    • Applying Requirements Management in Agile Environments 
    • Aligning RM Activities with Scrum Practices 
  11. Leveraging Tools in Requirements Management 
    • The Role of Tools in Requirements Management 
    • Basic Steps for Tool Selection 
    • Data Exchange Between Requirements Management Tools 

Requirements

  • A solid understanding of the fundamental principles of requirements engineering
  • Candidates must hold either the "IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering – Foundation Level" certificate or the “Requirements Engineering” certification issued by the British Computer Society (BCS) to be eligible for the exam

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