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Writing and Managing Software Requirements
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This workshop course teaches students how to create, elaborate and review business, user, and software requirements. The course includes best practices for eliciting, analyzing, specifying and verifying requirements. Students also learn how to decompose requirements into features, and how to deal with changes after sign-off.
   
Code R10
  Discipline Requirements Eng
Duration 2 days
 
Course Information
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Audience

  Software Process Architects   QA/Test Managers   Development Managers
  Business Analysts     QA User Testers     Software Developers
  Project Managers   X   QA Code Testers   X   User Education Specialists
               

at course completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

»   Recognize stakeholder patterns »   Review and update specs
»   Define vision and scope   »   Discuss specs in feature teams
»   Elicit and articulate requirements   »   Deal with open issues
»   Analyze and prioritize   »   Create traceability of spec items
»   Decide on the benefits of prototyping   »   Design a proper repository for documents

prerequisites

»   Intermediate knowledge of software engineering

course materials

A comprehensive workbook with knowledge material, examples, case studies, lab exercises, and references.

course outline
Module 1: Introduction to requirements engineering
»   Problems, objectives, requirements and specifications
»   Classification of requirement types
»   Business requirements
»   User requirements
»   Software requirements
Module 2: Requirements framework
»   The requirements development pipeline
»   Integration of requirements in the SDLC
»   Dealing with unknown needs
»   Tailoring the process for Agile environments
»   Traceability and metrics
Module 3: Project scope and business requirements
»   Defining the business context
»   Breaking the scope into logical sets of capabilities
»   Assigning and agreeing upon stakeholder roles
»   Building the business case
»   Establishing business areas, goals and requirements
»   Framing requirements to support business strategy and customer justification
Module 4: Elicitation
»   Identification of sources
»   Identification of stakeholders
»   Requirements workshops
»   Elicitation techniques
»   The voice of the customer
Module 5: Analysis
»   Requirements prioritization and scrubbing
»   Improving requirements through prototyping
»   Bridging from existing to new functionality using a gap analysis
»   Engineering assessment
Module 6: Specification
»   Use case development
»   Requirements for multiple audiences
»   Document layout and structure
»   Non-functional requirements
Module 7: Validation and verification
»   Review sessions and fit criteria
»   Dealing with dependencies and inconsitencies
»   Verification through test case design
»   Negotiating conflicting requirements
Module 8: Requirements management
»   Storage and privileges
»   Linking and accessing requirements
»   Version control and addendums
»   Making requirements traceable
Module 9: Requirements breakdown
»   From requirements to feature breakdowns
»   Software development planning
»   Organization of spec items
»   Committing features to releases
Module 10: Managing changes
»   Dealing with new ideas
»   Sources of requirements changes
»   Controlling and enabling change
»   Mechanisms to support triaging
Module 11: Tools support
»   Available tools
»   Evaluation criteria
»   Case: Atlassian Confluence wiki

certificate

Students receive a SoftO2 Education Certificate upon completion of the course.

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