Introduction to requirements engineering
Attending this training is advantageous.
The CPRE AL Requirements Management – Practitioner exam requires the CPRE-FL certificate.
Requirements Management
according to IREB® syllabus
Do you excel in working systematically and methodically, value precise and complete documentation and do you thoroughly assess requirements for their value and feasibility? If you’re eager to learn more about managing requirements, this training will equip you with the tools to do so. Together, we will discuss the Requirements Information Model and focus on attributing and evaluating requirements throughout a project’s and product’s lifecycle.
Advising
Objectives
- Understanding requirements management
- Precisely manage processes for version control and change management
- Identify attributes and views for requirements
- Apply relevant techniques for requirements traceability
- Preparation for the CPRE AL Requirements Management – Practitioner
Target groups:
Requirements Engineer, Business Analyst and Product Owner
Certificate - IREB® CPRE AL Requirements Management - Practitioner
The course is based on the current IREB® syllabus and prepares you for the CPRE AL Requirements Management- Practitioner exam which you may take online. Our web app provides study materials and exam questions to help you prepare for the certification exam.
Note:
There is an additional fee for the certification exam. The certification exam consists of a multiple choice test. Refer to the exam modalities and fees page for more information. Additionally, a written assignment may be submitted in order to become a specialist.
Syllabus
1. What is Requirements Management?
- Definition of requirements management
- Tasks in requirements management
- Goals and benefits of requirements management
- The requirements management plan
- Relevant standards
2. Requirements Information Model
- Basic principles (classification of requirements)
- Forms of presentation for documenting requirements
- Describing a requirements landscape with a requirements information model
- Content for the requirements management plan
3. Assigning attributes and views for requirements
- Objectives of assigning attributes and examples of the use of attributes in management activities
- What is an attribute schema
- The benefits of an attribute schema
- Designing an attribute schema
- Change management for attributes schemas
- Goals and types of views
- Defining views and the risks of views
- Implementing a view
- Optimizing the assignment of attributes and creation of views
- Content for the requirements management plan
4. Evaluating and prioritizing requirements
- Motivation and difficulties when prioritizing requirements
- Principles of evaluation
- Prioritizing requirements
- Two types of prioritization techniques
- Ad-hoc prioritization techniques
- Analytical prioritization techniques
- Combining prioritization techniques
- Content for the requirements management plan
5. Version and Change Management
- Versioning requirements
- Change management for requirements
- Change management process
- Content for the requirements management plan
6. Requirements traceability
- Reasons for requirements traceability
- Different traceability views
- Relationship types for traceability relationships
- Forms of presentation for traceability relationships
- Darstellungsformen für Verfolgbarkeits-Beziehungen
- Developing a strategy for project-specific traceability
- Creating and using project-specific traceability models
- Measures for evaluating implemented traceability
- Content for the requirements management plan
7. Variant management for requirements
- Using variants of requirements
- Forms of explicit documentation of variants and evaluation of these forms
- Feature modeling
- Content for the requirements management plan
8. Reporting in Requirements Management
- The goals and benefits of reporting in requirements management
- Establishing a reporting system in requirements management
- The risks and problems of using reporting
- Content for the requirements management plan
9. Managing Requirements Engineering processes
- Requirements Engineering as a process
- Parameters of the Requirements Engineering process
- Documenting the Requirements Engineering process
- Monitoring and controlling the Requirements Engineering process
- Process improvement for the Requirements Engineering process
- Content for the requirements management plan
10. Requirements Management in agile projects
- Background
- Requirements management as part of agile product development
- Mapping requirements management activities to scrum activities
11. Tool-based Requirements Management
- Role of tools in requirements management
- Basic procedure for tool selection
- Data exchange between requirements management tools
- Content for the requirements management plan