RE-2 – BCS Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering

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  • Code: RE-2
  • Duration: Days 3
  • Price per delegate:
    £1,295.00 +VAT
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Course Description

The BCS Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering is for candidates who want to develop or further their skills in the understanding and application of elicitation, analysis and management of requirements.

As the traditional Business Analyst role develops and grows into other areas, the need for Requirements Engineering skills has opened up into the wider business and is now necessary in a variety of roles and teams.

The learning in this certificate is shaped to place emphasis on valuable business analysis skills rather than the Business Analyst role. Focusing on these skills should ensure alignment with business objectives and a fit-for-purpose solution.

During this three day course you’ll receive all the training you need to prepare for the BCS Requirements Engineering certificate examination. A pass means you’re another step closer to achieving the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis – the de facto certification for practicing business analysts.

The BCS Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering is a core module for the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis.

Pre-requisites

The Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis, while not mandatory, provides valuable background knowledge for this certificate. Good written English is required.

Target Audience

This qualification benefits professionals in various roles, including:

  • Business analyst
  • Business architect
  • Data analyst
  • Project manager
  • Systems analyst
  • Product manager/owner

It provides value for entry-level, associate, and management positions.

Course Materials

We'll send a printed copy of the latest comprehensive course manual to your home address well before your course begins. Additionally, you'll receive an email with a link to access a digital version of the same manual, ensuring you have both physical and electronic references for your convenience and future use.

Exam

The course prepares delegates for the BCS Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering examination. If this course is part of your BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis programme you have a choice of further modules which include the other Core BA Diploma module, Business Analysis Practice.

Aspect Details
Type 40 multiple choice and multiple response questions
Duration 60 minutes
Supervised Yes
Open Book No (no materials allowed)
Passmark 26/40 (65%)
Delivery Digital, invigilated online exam

The exam is accessible only at the registered date and time. Candidates with disabilities or special considerations, including English as a second language, may request adjustments or additional time in line with BCS reasonable adjustments policy.

Learning Objectives

Upon achievement of the certificate, candidates will be able to demonstrate a practical understanding of how to:

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure requirements align with business objectives.
  • Elicit different types of requirements and the associated documentation.
  • Analyse and validate requirements.
  • Ensure and manage requirement quality and change.

Course Content

Introduction to Requirement Engineering

  • Definition of a requirement
  • Characteristics of a good requirement
  • Types of requirements
  • Requirements hierarchies
  • Purpose of requirements and their target audience
  • Common problems with requirements
  • Rationale for Requirements Engineering (RE)
  • RE framework

Stakeholders in RE

  • Stakeholders and viewpoints
  • Roles and responsibilities within RE
  • Identifying and analysing user roles
  • Personas
  • Customer journey maps

Planning for RE

  • The business context
  • The importance of starting a project properly: Project Initiation Document / Terms of Reference
  • Planning the RE approach
  • Adapting RE for different situations
  • Iterative versus linear projects

Requirements Elicitation

  • The scope of elicitation work
  • The significance of knowledge types: tacit (corporate and individual) and non-tacit (corporate and individual)
  • Uses, advantages and disadvantages of elicitation techniques:
    • Interviewing
    • Workshops
    • Observation (including shadowing)
    • Storytelling
    • Scenario analysis & scenario role-play
    • Prototyping (including storyboards & wireframes)
    • Document analysis & record searching
  • Selection of appropriate techniques
  • Suitability of elicitation techniques for linear and Agile projects

Documenting Requirements

  • The importance of documentation
  • Documentation styles (text-based versus diagrammatic) and formats
  • Business requirements document (BRD)
  • Requirements catalogue
  • User stories
  • Use case models
  • Class models
  • Applicability to linear and Agile projects

Modelling Requirements

  • Modelling functionality
    • context diagrams and use case diagrams for scope definition
    • use case descriptions for defining user interactions
  • Modelling data: class models
  • Cross-checking models using a CRUD matrix

Requirements Analysis

  • Ensuring fitness for purpose
  • Applying requirements filters:
    • Unravelling multiple requirements
    • Checking for overlapping or duplicate requirements
    • Confirming relevance (congruence with business & project objectives)
    • Evaluating feasibility
    • Removing conflicts
    • Checking for solutions
  • Checking and improving quality (specific, measurable, traceable, etc.)
  • Packaging requirements for delivery (release and iteration backlogs during Agile development)
  • Prioritising requirements using MoSCoW

Elaborating and Refining Requirements

  • Slicing requirements
  • Making requirements testable (defining acceptance criteria)
  • Elaborating and refining requirements using scenario analysis and prototyping
  • Analysing business rules

Requirements Validation

  • Approaches to validation: formal versus informal
  • Validation in linear and Agile projects
  • Stakeholder responsibilities in requirements validation
  • Prototype reviews

Requirements Management

  • Rationale for requirements management
  • Elements of requirements management:
    • Identification & cross-referencing
    • Origin & ownership
    • Change control & configuration management
    • Traceability
    • Software support
  • Requirements management in linear and Agile projects
   

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Virtual Class 19/02/25 09:30 Days 3 £1,295.00
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