Course Outline

  1. What is Requirements Management?
    • Definition of Requirements Management
    • Tasks in Requirements Management
    • Goals and Benefits of Requirements Management
    • Requirements Management Plan
    • Relevant Standards for Government
  2. Requirements Information Model
    • Fundamentals
    • Forms of Presentation
    • Creation of a Requirements Information Model
  3. Assigning Attributes and Views on Requirements
    • Objectives of Assigning Attributes
    • Use of an Attribute Scheme
    • Designing an Attribute Schema
    • Change Management of Attribute Schemas
    • Goals and Types of Views
    • Definition of Views and Risks of Views
    • Optimizing Attribute Population and the Creation of Views
  4. Evaluation and Prioritization of Requirements
    • Principles of Evaluation
    • Prioritizing Requirements
    • Ad-Hoc Prioritization Techniques
    • Two-Criteria Classification
    • 100-Dollar Technique
    • Analytical Prioritization Techniques
    • Combination of Prioritization Techniques
  5. Version and Change Management
    • Versioning of Requirements
      • Version Control for Requirements and Requirement Documents
      • Requirements Configuration
      • Requirements Baseline
      • Branching of Requirements
    • Change Management for Requirements
      • Causes, Sources, and Timing of Requirement Changes
      • Types of Changes to Requirements
      • Analysis and Documentation of the Stability of Requirements
    • Change Management Process
  6. Requirements Traceability
    • Reasons for Requirements Traceability
      • What Does Requirements Traceability Mean?
      • Why Traceability of Requirements and Artifacts is Important
    • Different Traceability Views
    • Relationship Types for Traceability Relationships
    • Forms of Presentation for Traceability Relationships
      • Implicit and Explicit Documentation of Traceability
      • Bidirectional and Unidirectional Traceability Relationships
      • Forms of Presentation for Traceability Relationships
    • Development of a Strategy for Project-Specific Traceability
    • Creating and Using Specific Traceability Models
      • A Process for Defining a Specific Traceability Model
      • Using a Specific Traceability Model
    • Measures for the Evaluation of Implemented Traceability
    • Challenges in the Traceability of Non-Textual Artifacts
  7. Variant Management for Requirements
    • Use of Variants of Requirements
    • Forms of Explicit Documentation of Variants and Their Evaluation
    • Feature Modeling
  8. Reporting in Requirements Management
    • Goals and Benefits of Reporting in Requirements Management
    • Establishment of a Reporting System in RM
      • Interfaces
      • Contents of a Report
      • Tips for the Development and Application of Reporting
      • Report Definition Process
    • Key Figures in Requirements Engineering
      • Key Figures in Requirements Management
      • Deriving Key Figures Using the Goal-Question-Metric Method
    • Risks and Problems in Reporting
  9. Management of 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 in the Requirements Engineering Process
  10. Requirements Management in Agile Projects
    • Background
    • Requirements Management in Agile Projects
    • Mapping RM Activities to Scrum Activities
  11. Use of Tools in Requirements Management
    • Role of Tools in Requirements Management
    • Basic Procedure for Tool Selection
    • Data Exchange between Requirements Management Tools

Requirements

  • Essential principles and practices of requirements engineering for government
  • To be eligible for the exam, candidates must hold either the "IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering – Foundation Level" certification or the “Requirements Engineering” certification from the British Computer Society (BCS)
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