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ISEB Certificate in Requirements Engineering

Course Syllabus

  1. The role of the analyst
    • The role and competencies of an analyst
    • Developing analyst competencies
  2. The requirements engineering process
    • The importance of requirements engineering
    • A framework for requirements engineering
    • Characteristics of requirements engineering
  3. Actors and viewpoints
    • Stakeholders in business analysis projects
    • Roles and responsibilities in the requirements engineering process
    • Context diagrams and stakeholders
  4. Project initiation
    • The importance of the project initiation stage
    • The project initiation document
  5. Facilitated workshops
    • The use of workshops to elicit, analyse and negotiate requirements
    • Structure of a facilitated workshop
    • Workshop roles
    • Facilitation skills
    • Stimulating creative thinking
  6. Fact-finding Interviewing
    • Structure of a fact-finding interview
    • Questioning techniques
    • Documenting interviews
  7. 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
  8. Other requirements elicitation techniques
    • Observation and ethnographic studies
    • Activity sampling
    • Document and data source analysis
    • Questionnaires
    • Choosing the appropriate technique/s
  9. Analysing requirements
    • Examining the requirements catalogue
    • Prioritising requirements (MoSCoW)
    • Checking for ambiguity and lack of clarity
    • Testability of requirements.
  10. 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
  11. Requirements management
    • Change and version control of requirements
    • Requirements traceability
    • The use of CASE tools in requirements engineering
  12. Validating requirements
    • Validation techniques
    • Quality control in requirements engineering
  13. Requirements and systems development
    • Development lifecycles
    • The link between requirements and systems development
    • Post-implementation review