BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering – Virtual Class

Special Notices

Course dates represent your first session. We will confirm your full session schedule during the booking process.

Overview

Today's organisations require Business Analysts who can extend themselves beyond their conventional role of merely eliciting requirements. They require people who can undertake the requirements engineering process from elicitation to validation and retain ownership of requirements through implementation and testing.
This course develops the skills needed to work with requirements stakeholders to ensure that the requirements satisfy their various perspectives and that any conflicts are negotiated to a position of consensus. Delegates will also learn how to work with stakeholders and other requirements actors to ensure the requirements are complete, unambiguous, realistic and testable.
After the course delegates may sit an examination to attain the BCS Business Systems Development certificate in Requirements Engineering.

These delegates should also book on course code REEX-2 and pay for their exam separately. This course may be taken as part of the QA programme leading to the BCS Diploma in Business Analysis.

The BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering fully interactive webinar series will consist of six modules, usually over two or three weeks.

Prerequisites

• Those wishing to acquire the skill set required for establishing system requirements.
• Those wishing to attain the BCS Business Systems Development Certificate in Requirements Engineering (these delegates should also book on course code REEX-2 and pay for their exam separately).
• Candidates with special examination requirements should consult the ISEB web site (www.iseb.org.uk) for the BCS Special Needs policy. Note that the BCS must be advised at least four weeks in advance of any special requirements.
• There are no other specific prerequisites for this course.

Photographic identification for exams and BCS reasonable adjustments policy

• If you are taking a BCS exam you must bring photographic identification (passport, driving license or student card) as it is a BCS requirement to produce it for the invigilator prior to the exam. Failure to produce a valid form of photographic identification will result in a candidate not being able to sit the exam.
• The BCS also allow additional time for candidates who have a disability or whose business language is not English. Candidates can request this additonal time in line with the BCS reasonable adjustments policy. If you believe you qualify please contact our examination administration team as early as possible (number below) who will provide you with the appropriate form for submission to the BCS.
  
  Delegates on QA public virtual courses will be issued with headsets prior to the event

Delegates will learn how to

• Describe the roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders in the requirements engineering process
• Demonstrate the application of a range requirements elicitation techniques
• Explain the use of requirements elicitation techniques and the relevance of the techniques to given situations
• Document and prioritise user requirements for an information system
• Identify problems with requirements and explain how requirements documentation may be improved
• Create a process/function model of requirements for an information system
• Interpret a model of the data requirements for an information system
• Explain the importance of linking project objectives and requirements to the Business Case
• Describe the principles of Requirements Management and explain the importance of managing requirements
• Describe the use of CASE tools to support Requirements Engineering
• Explain the principles of Requirements Validation and define an approach to validating requirements

Course Outline.

• Each module serves as the prerequisite for the next and all are designed to be completed in order, with the same group of participants.
• All modules include pre-course work consisting of self-study reading and assignments.

Module 1

• This module will provide the introduction to the course, instructor and participants.
• Lifecycle for business change; Business plans and objectives; Problems with requirements; The stakeholders involved in RE; RE process overview
• Hierarchy of requirements; TOR/PID; Functional requirements; Non-Functional requirements; General/Technical requirements; Service level requirements

Module 2

• Problems with elicitation; Different stakeholders viewpoints; Elicitation techniques; Facilitated workshops in detail; Prioritisation of requirements; The structure and contents of a requirement
• Interviewing for RE; The interviewing lifecycle; Planning, preparing, conducting and following up the interview; Questioning strategies

Module 3

• Developing a process/functional model; Reading a static (data) model

Module 4

• Iterating requirements; Congruence with business objectives; Analysing requirements against: Classification, Priority, Ambiguity, Testability, Risk, Granularity, Omissions, Conflicts, Overlaps, and Achievability; Resolving conflicts
• Requirements validation; Requirements reviews; Validation checklist; Validation by prototyping

Module 5

• The principles of requirements management (RM); How the '4 pillars' support RM; The baseline mechanism; The role of the Change Control Board
• Requirements testing/user acceptance testing; Post-implementation review; Roles of requirements actors

Module 6

• Course review and Review Sample Exam

Case study

• A case study allows the delegates to undertake a simulated requirements engineering assignment to practice the new skills.