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3-day ITIL Foundation

5-day PRINCE2™ Practitioner

4-day Business Analysis

3-day Project Management Fundamentals

Course Title:
ISEB Requirements Engineering

Duration: 3 days

Next Public Course Date(s):
London
12 May 2008
16 June 2008
14 July 2008
4 August 2008
1 September 2008
29 September 2008
20 October 2008
10 November 2008
1 December 2008

Leeds
28 April 2008
28 July 2008

Price: £1,320 (+VAT) per delegate

Course Overview
Requirements Engineering has been developed from our Trainer's twenty years of experience of consultancy, training and software development. It presents a range of key techniques for discovering, analysing and documenting business and system requirements and places these within the context of our own 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.

ISEB qualifications
The course 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). This certificate is also a core module for the ISEB Business Analysis Diploma.

Course Content


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 business analysis 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
General business requirements
Functional and non-functional requirements
Technical 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



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