BCS Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering

Practitioner Course in Concepts, Methods, Techniques and Tools in Creating and Managing Requirements. Select Course Date and Time Based on Your Convenience!

GBP
250

Instructor-led, Online

Duration: 18 Hours

Course Code: TXV-BCS-RE3

Skill Level: All Levels

BCS Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering

Overview

Business analysis professionals traditionally have been responsible primarily for requirements in a product development, project execution or process improvement scenarios. BAs are engaged right from the pre-sales stage all the way through to the project delivery, their contribution starting with requirements gathering, then specifying and documenting requirements and communicating them to the stakeholders, team members, customers and end-users. This focus on requirements did not change with the adoption of agile development methodologies, except perhaps the names and forms for the artefacts and activities eg., backlogs, stories, grooming, refinement, bdd scenarios etc. Come join us in TEXAVI Course on BCS Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering, explore the approaches, practices, techniques and tools in business analyst’s repertoire, level up your competencies and turbo-boost your career potential!

Who can attend?

Anybody with or without work experience

IT professionals (eg., Developers, testers) considering a move to BA role

Non-IT people who want to learn IT skills thinking of a career switch

Graduates and university students who aspire to get into IT industry

Students who have just passed their B. Tec, A-Levels or college studies

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1: Define Requirements Approach and Project Scope

Module 2: Investigate and Elicit Requirements

Module 3: Specify and Record Requirements

Module 4: Build Models and Prototypes to Represent Requirements

Module 5: Collaborate with Stakeholders to Clarify Requirements

Module 6: Analyse, Prioritise and Assure Quality of Requirements

Module 7: Conduct User Analysis, Profiling and Personas

Module 8: Requirements Management and Traceability

What will you learn?

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Define the term ‘Requirements’

Describe the Requirements Engineering Framework

Explain factors to be considered in adapting the approach to requirements engineering

Describe the contents of a project initiation document (PID)/terms of reference (ToR)

Explain different knowledge types

Identify a technique to articulate tacit knowledge

Explain the use, advantages and disadvantages of elicitation techniques

Identify an appropriate technique to elicit requirements

Discuss the suitability of elicitation techniques for agile and linear development approaches

Identify and describe the categories of requirement

Explain the importance of documentation

Identify the key documentation styles

Explain the characteristics documented for requirements in a requirements catalogue

Explain the key underlying principles and standard format of a user story

Explain the rationale for modelling the functional requirements (processing and data)

of an information system

Describe the purpose of modelling in requirements engineering

Prepare a UML use case diagram Prepare a UML Class diagram

Explain the use of a CRUD matrix

Explain the use of prototyping to elaborate requirements

Describe the responsibilities of the actors (stakeholder roles) in Requirements Engineering

Describe the purpose of requirements validation

Describe the rationale for various approaches to requirements validation

Demonstrate how Agile requirements are validated

Demonstrate formal requirements validation

Explain the purpose of analysing requirements

Apply the MoSCoW technique to prioritise requirements

Interpret individual requirements; applying filters and quality criteria

Identify the purposes of Slicing Requirements (Agile/ Linear)

Identify techniques used to analyse Business Rules

Explain the importance of testability

Describe techniques used to analyse roles

Explain the purpose of a Customer Journey Map

Explain the rationale and the approach to achieving requirements traceability

Explain the rationale for requirements management

Define the elements of Requirements Management and the links between them

Explain the use of a change control process

Describe the elements of a version control process

Explain the use and advantages of different forms of traceability

What do you need?

There are no pre-requisites for this course. There is no need for any prior experience, working knowledge or awareness of software development or projects experience. The course is suitable for experienced professionals working in the industry or academia, aspirants and early stage professionals, as well as students in universities and colleges. Professionals and aspirants from technology, business, operations or sales are all welcome to explore and understand the agile methodologies alongside their concepts and principles.

WHAT'S INCLUDED?

24×7 access to TEXAVI’s high quality course content

Practical insights from real life IT projects

Course completion certificate

Case studies, examples and illustrations

Interactive quizzes and challenges

Job aids, resources and tools

Access to TEXAVI’s collaborative digital platform

Why Texavi?

TEXAVI is a proven leader in delivering non-coding IT learning, worldwide

We are not just trainers, but practising IT professionals with 25+ years of work exp

Our courses get you job-ready with practical and real-time insights

Qualify for certificates upon completion and complete our assessments

Pave way for industry-recognised certifications

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Trainer Profile

Your trainer for this course is Pardha Saradhi Mantravadi. Pardha is a seasoned and well-qualified trainer, coach, mentor, influencer and thought leader. He has rich and varied IT-industry experience of 25 years, working in working in different roles as a Business Analysis professional with blue-chip organisations viz., HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Dyson, Asda, Cambridge University Press, Roche, King’s College London , Royal Society of Chemistry etc. Pardha delivers his training sessions by blending the concepts and principles with practical insights from real-life projects and programs…click here to view the complete trainer profile

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