BCS EXIN Requirements Engineering

BCS EXIN Requirements Engineering course

Overview

Every product or service development starts with requirements. What are the requirements? Many teams struggle with how to discover what is truly needed, and how to manage this information throughout the product or service life cycle.
This course is designed for people who want to learn how to elicit, analyze, validate, document, and manage requirements. It presents an end-to-end requirements engineering framework supported by tools and techniques that may be used at different stages. You will learn how to produce well-formed, high-quality requirements that are crucial to delivering quality products.

Target audience

This course is suitable for Business Analysts, Product Owners, Business Managers and members of their teams, Business Change Managers, and Project Managers.

Depending on the group, the course will be delivered in English or Dutch.

Certification

The course prepares for an examination being a one-hour, closed book, multiple-choice examination leading to the EXIN/BCS Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering. The exam is held at the end of day 3 of the course. The exam is based on the EXIN / BCS Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering syllabus. This course fulfills the European Qualification Framework level 4 and SFIA level 3.

Content of the course

Module 1: Define requirements approach and project scope 

This module explains different requirements approaches and teaches how to define a project scope.

Module 2: Elicit requirements 

This module explains different types of knowledge: tacit and explicit. It also discusses requirements elicitation techniques and their advantages and disadvantages.

Module 3: Record requirements

This module focuses on how to document requirements. Different frameworks for requirements formulation are introduced (traditional requirements statements, user stories).

Module 4: Requirements Hierarchy

This module introduces two types of requirements: business and solution with subcategories within each requirement type.
It explains the dependencies between requirements types and categories.

Module 5: Build models and prototypes to represent the requirements 

This module introduces requirements models to be used to model dynamic and static aspects of requirements. Use case diagrams, class diagrams, and CRUD matrices form the basis of this module. It also explains how to use prototyping to elaborate requirements.

Module 6: Collaborate and communicate with stakeholders to clarify requirements

This module discusses different stakeholders in Requirements Engineering as well as their contributions to this process. It also explains how to check the requirements and whether they properly address the stakeholders' needs. It discusses different validation approaches and zooms into a review process.

Module 7: Analyze, prioritize and assure the quality of requirements 

This module focuses on how to check the feasibility of requirements and perform quality checks to ensure their good quality.

Module 8: Conduct user analysis and profiling 

This module explains techniques used to analyze user roles and explains how customer journey maps contribute to requirements development.

Module 9: Requirements management and traceability

This module tackles aspects of requirements management like configuration control, change control, and baselining. It also discusses the advantages and pitfalls of the usage of dedicated tooling such as Requirements Management packages.

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