IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering - Foundation Level Training Course

Core Concepts in Requirements Engineering

• Overview and Introduction:
  • Defining Requirements Engineering (RE) and Business Analysis (BA).
  • The RE Process Model: covering Elicitation, Elaboration, Specification, and Validation.
  • Examining the "V-Model" and Agile approaches within RE.
• Foundational Principles:
  • Stakeholder Analysis: identifying and categorizing key stakeholders.
  • Requirement Quality: understanding attributes such as Correctness, Completeness, Consistency, and Unambiguity.
  • The cost of change curve and the critical importance of early-stage requirements.
• Lab 1: Exercises in stakeholder mapping and assessing requirement quality.

Eliciting and Elaborating Requirements

• Methodologies for Requirements Elaboration:
  • Elicitation Techniques: In-depth exploration of interviews, workshops (including Joint Application Design), observation, and prototyping.
  • Domain Analysis: Recognizing domain concepts and constructing domain models.
  • Use Cases: Defining actors, system boundaries, and primary success scenarios (Use Case specification).
  • Scenarios: Developing specific use scenarios and defining acceptance criteria.
• Lab 2: Drafting Use Case descriptions and User Stories based on a given scenario.

Specifying and Documenting Requirements

• Work Products and Documentation Standards:
  • The Requirements Specification: Structuring and populating an SRS (Software Requirements Specification).
  • Notations: Introduction to standard modeling notations such as UML (Use Case and Activity Diagrams) and BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation).
  • Mockups and Prototypes: Utilizing wireframes and prototypes to validate requirements with stakeholders.
• Lab 3: Modeling a business process with BPMN and system interactions with UML.

Requirements Management and Process Integration

• Strategic Management of Requirements:
  • Traceability: Implementing forward and backward traceability matrices.
  • Change Management: Processing requirements change requests (RFC) and maintaining version control.
  • Configuration Management: Treating requirements artifacts as manageable work products.
• Process Structure and Workflow:
  • Integrating RE into broader project management frameworks (SDLC, Scrum, Kanban).
  • Addressing risk management within requirements engineering.
  • Navigating negotiation and conflict resolution related to requirements.
• Lab 4: Building a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and maintaining a Change Request log.

Tools and Certification Readiness

• Software Support:
  • Surveying Computer-Supported Requirements Engineering (CSRE) tools.
  • Key features to evaluate in RE tools, including versioning, traceability, and collaboration capabilities.
  • Best practices for data interchange (XMI, XML) across different tools.
• Exam Preparation:
  • Reviewing critical syllabus topics.
  • Analyzing common errors encountered in the exam.
  • Conducting guided practice with multiple-choice questions.
  • Details on the exam process conducted by an ACB (Approved Certification Body).
• Final Activity: Mock exam session followed by a Q&A.