BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering Training

Course 3510

Duration: 3 days
Exam Voucher: Yes
Language: English
Level: Intermediate

Improved requirements management means improved project delivery. Earning the BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering shows you have the knowledge and expertise to deliver high-quality, mission-critical products and projects.

This BCS Requirements Engineering course presents an end-to-end requirements engineering framework. From the business case to the delivery of well-documented and well-formed requirements, high-quality requirements are crucial to delivering quality products. In addition, this course prepares you to take the BCS Requirements Engineering exam at the end of the course.

BCS Requirements Engineering Course Delivery Methods

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Online

BCS Requirements Engineering Course Information

In this course, you will learn how to:

Link requirements backward to the business case and forward to the delivered product, process or service.
Identify the roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders in the requirements engineering process.
Describe the use of tools to support Requirements Engineering.
Apply the Requirements Validation process.

Prerequisites

Attendees should have experience at the level of:

Course 211, Introduction to Business Analysis Training: Defining Successful Projects, or
Course 3507, BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis

International Diploma in Business Analysis Certification Information

Duration: One hour
Passing Score: 50%
Delivery: Written, based on a business scenario, ‘open book,’ timed.
The International Diploma requires a 50-minute oral examination with two examiners. The questions will require you to apply your business analysis knowledge and understanding to scenarios described by the oral examiners.
For additional information, see: https://www2.bcs.org/certifications/ba/international-diploma-in-business-analysis

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BCS Associate membership benefit: Upon passing your exam, BCS will contact you to activate your membership. Once activated, you will be a BCS Associate Member and will have access to the wealth of benefits and support to help you in your career.
BCS Associate membership provides exclusive access to resources, content and opportunities that will enrich your career.

Note: This offer is only available once to each exam candidate. Exam candidates who have previously benefited from free Associate Membership will not be eligible for this offer again, even if they have taken another qualifying BCS exam.

The BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, offers this internationally recognized certification, enabling you to take your skills worldwide. The four modules required to apply for this certification include one foundation-level course and three practitioner-level courses:

BCS Requirements Engineering Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Requirements Engineering

Framework for Requirements Engineering

Identifying the Requirements Engineering rationale
Planning and estimating requirements
Identifying the business rationale and inputs
Crafting the business case
Creating the Terms of Reference or Project Initiation Document (PID)

Building the Requirements

Categorizing requirements within the hierarchy
General business requirements, including legal and business policy
Technical policy requirements
Functional requirements
Non-functional requirements

Stakeholders in the Requirements Process

Project Stakeholders
Business Stakeholders
External stakeholders

Module 2: Requirements Elicitation

Types of knowledge

Explicit knowledge and ignorance
Identifying tacit knowledge and ignorance

Eliciting requirements from stakeholders

Planning elicitation meetings
Choosing the right people to interview

Applying elicitation techniques

Selecting the best interview methodology
Constructing questions that deliver results

Module 3: Requirements Engineering Modeling Techniques

Why model requirements?

Generating questions
Defining business rules
Cross-checking for consistency and completeness

Modeling the business context for the system

Developing a model to represent system processing requirements
Interpreting a data model

Module 4: Documenting Your Requirements

Documentation styles and levels of definition

Writing standard requirements
Employing user stories and use cases

Creating a Requirements Catalog

Identifying necessary attributes
Writing a requirements description
Non-functional requirements

Module 5: Requirements Analysis

Prioritizing and packaging requirements for delivery

Analyzing and prioritizing business needs
Allocating requirements

Organizing requirements

Optimizing business value
Evaluating dependencies between requirements

Ensuring well-formed requirements

Removing overlapping requirements
Identifying and negotiating conflicts between requirements
Removing ambiguity
Ensuring feasibility and testability
Prototyping requirements
Verifying requirements

Module 6: Validating Requirements

Applying validation skills

Selecting the best validation methods
Validation checklists

Types of reviews

Reviews, walk-throughs and inspections
Stakeholders and their areas of concern

Module 7: Requirements Management

Dealing with changing requirements

Types of changes
Frequency and magnitude of changes

The importance of traceability

Vertical traceability (to business objectives)
Horizontal traceability (from origin to deliver)
Traceability and ownership

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BCS Requirements Engineering Course FAQs

The BCS Institute is The Chartered Institute for IT.

You can earn the Practitioner Certification in Requirements Engineering if you pass the course exam.

BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering will give you 17 PDUs.

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