Course: ISEB Requirements Engineering - 3 days

This 3 day course presents a range of key techniques for discovering, analysing and documenting business and system requirements and places these within the context of the ADAPT© framework for requirements engineering.

The emphasis of the course is very much on providing participants with 'hands on' experience of actually using the techniques as they work through a realistic case study scenario. A comprehensive course manual supports the course but also provides a valuable 'how to' reference guide for participants to use in their day-to-day work.

The course is delivered by experienced practitioners who are main contributors to the BCS book "Business Analysis".  This training provider has helped 10,000 delegates pass ISEB Certificate exams, with a pass rate of over 93%.

Requirements Engineering prepares participants to sit the one-hour, open book, examination leading to the certificate in Requirements Engineering offered by the Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB). Requirements Engineering is also a core module for the ISEB Business Analysis Diploma.

 

The course price includes the exam fee

The role of the analyst
The role and competencies of an analyst
Developing analyst competencies
The requirements engineering process
The importance of requirements engineering
A framework for requirements engineering
Characteristics of requirements engineering
Actors and viewpoints
Stakeholders in systems development projects
Roles and responsibilities in the requirements engineering process
Context diagrams and stakeholders
Project initiation
The importance of the project initiation stage
The project initiation document
Facilitated workshops
The use of workshops to elicit, analyse and negotiate requirements
Structure of a facilitated workshop
Workshop roles
Facilitation skills
Stimulating creative thinking
Fact-finding Interviewing
Structure of a fact-finding interview
Questioning techniques
Documenting interviews
Documenting requirements
Functional and non-functional requirements
Technical and general requirements
The requirements catalogue
Interpreting class diagrams
Scoping systems and documenting requirements with use cases
Other requirements elicitation techniques
Observation and ethnographic studies
Activity sampling
Document and data source analysis
Questionnaires
Choosing the appropriate technique/s
Analysing requirements
Examining the requirements catalogue
Prioritising requirements (MoSCoW)
Checking for ambiguity and lack of clarity
Testability of requirements.
Scenarios and prototyping
The use of scenarios to explore requirements
Use case descriptions as a method of documenting scenarios
The use of prototyping to explore requirements
Types of prototyping (throwaway, evolutionary etc.)
The dangers and difficulties of prototyping; managing prototyping exercises
Requirements management
Change and version control of requirements
Requirements traceability
The use of CASE tools in requirements engineering
Validating requirements
Validation techniques
Quality control in requirements engineering
Requirements and systems development
Development lifecycles
The link between requirements and systems development
Post-implementation review