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Course Outline
Foundations of Requirements Engineering
- Overview and Scope:
- Definitions of Requirements Engineering (RE) and Business Analysis (BA) within the public sector context.
- Overview of the Requirements Engineering Process Model: Elicitation, Elaboration, Specification, and Validation.
- Comparison of the V-Model and Agile methodologies as they apply to federal and civilian agency workflows.
- Core Principles:
- Stakeholder Analysis: Methods for identifying and classifying key stakeholders to ensure inclusive governance.
- Requirements Quality Attributes: Criteria for ensuring requirements are Correct, Complete, Consistent, and Unambiguous.
- The Cost of Change Curve: Understanding the impact of early requirements definition on project lifecycle efficiency and accountability.
- Exercise 1: Conduct stakeholder mapping and perform a quality assessment of identified requirements.
Requirements Elicitation and Elaboration
- Elicitation and Elaboration Techniques:
- Methods for Elicitation: Comprehensive review of interviews, workshops (including Joint Application Design), direct observation, and prototyping.
- Domain Analysis: Techniques for identifying domain concepts and constructing domain models.
- Use Cases: Defactors, system boundaries, and the primary success scenario for requirements specifications.
- Scenario Development: Establishing specific use scenarios and associated acceptance criteria.
- Exercise 2: Draft Use Case descriptions and User Stories derived from provided operational scenarios.
Requirements Specification and Documentation
- Work Products and Documentation Standards:
- The Requirements Specification: Structural components and content requirements for a Software Requirements Specification (SRS).
- Modeling Notations: Introduction to standard modeling languages, including UML (Use Case and Activity Diagrams) and BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation).
- Visual Validation: Utilization of wireframes and prototypes to verify requirements with stakeholders for government programs.
- Exercise 3: Model a business process using BPMN and illustrate system interactions using UML.
Requirements Management and Process Integration
- Requirements Management Practices:
- Traceability: Implementation of forward and backward traceability matrices to ensure auditability and compliance.
- Change Management: Procedures for processing requirements change requests (RFC) and maintaining version control.
- Configuration Management: Protocols for managing requirements artifacts as official work products.
- Process and Operational Structure:
- Integration of RE into project management frameworks (SDLC, Scrum, Kanban) for federal projects.
- Risk management strategies within requirements engineering.
- Negotiation and conflict resolution techniques regarding conflicting requirements.
- Exercise 4: Develop a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and manage a Change Request log.
Tooling and Certification Preparation
- Tool Support and Technology:
- Overview of Computer-Supported Requirements Engineering (CSRE) tools available for government use.
- Key features for selecting RE tools, including versioning, traceability, and collaboration capabilities.
- Best practices for data exchange standards (XMI, XML) between disparate systems.
- Certification Exam Preparation:
- Review of key syllabus topics relevant to professional standards.
- Analysis of common pitfalls in certification examinations.
- Guided practice with multiple-choice exam questions.
- Guidance on the ACB (Approved Certification Body) examination process.
- Final Activity: Participate in a mock examination session and engage in a question-and-answer review.
Requirements
No prior qualifications are required to submit an application for the Foundation Level for government personnel.
21 Hours
