Fundamentals

• Place of Requirement Engineering in project lifecycle (Waterfall – Agile)
• Requirements Engineering – what is it?
• What do studies show about requirement engineering?
• Why do we need Requirements Engineering in a project?
• Hard skills & soft skills of a Requirements Engineer
• What are the obstacles for good Requirements Engineering
• What is a requirement?
• Natural language and communication : the transformational effect
• What are the pitfalls of writing requirements in “natural language”
• How to write a requirement using “natural language” : recipe and guidelines
• Syntactical structure of a requirement : single requirement template and requirements attributes
• How are requirements classified? Functional vs Non-functional requirements
• What are constraints? Why is it important to log them

Elicit

• What is Requirements Elicitation process?
• What are the key phases of elicitation?
• How to prepare for elicitation: stakeholders analysis & management
• Stakeholder management technique : RACI
• How to prepare for elicitation: Understanding stakeholders goals
• System boundary, context boundary and irrelevant context
• Scope modeling technique : Context Model
• Which human & non-human resources can be used for elicitation?
• What are the common elicitation techniques?
• Factors influencing the elicitation techniques to be used
• How and why documenting elicitation results?
• How to confirm the elicitation results?

Documentation & Modeling

• Why document textually & model visually requirements?
• What are the key characteristics of a good model?
• What is dynamic and static modeling?
• What are Functional, behavioural & data modeling?
• What are the possible levels of formalism to document requirements?
• What is the role of templates? What is the content of a typical template
• Fundamentals of Use case diagrams – practical use on projects
• Use cases pros & cons
• Fundamentals of UML activity diagrams – practical use on projects
• UML Activity Diagrams pros & cons
• Brief comparison UML notation – BPMN notation
• Fundamentals of UML state diagrams – practical use on projects
• Fundamentals of UML class diagrams – practical use on projects

Validate & Negociate

• Why validate requirements? Quality and agreement
• Document level quality criteria
• Requirement level quality criteria
• Principles for performing requirements validation
• Validating requirements to obtain a formal sign-off (baseline)
• Requirements validation techniques : commenting, walkthrough, inspection
• Requirements conflict identification and resolution techniques

Manage

• Why and how to prioritize requirements
• The Kano model
• Document versioning techniques using configuration management
• Key characteristics of a document version
• Element of Change management  : change request process, change control board
• What is scope creeping? How to avoid it?
• Scope creeping awareness : what are the typical sources of scope creeping
• What is requirements traceability?
• What are the three usages of traceability?
• Traceability difficulties
• Requirements management tools : an introduction