BCS Professional Certificate in Advanced Requirements Engineering

On this accelerated BCS Professional Certificate in Advanced Requirements Engineering course, you will gain a deeper understanding of the requirements engineering framework. You will be able to define different business roles and problem statements and learn to showcase your ability to understand enterprise governance and progress towards the Advanced International Diploma in Business Analysis.

In just 2 days, you’ll extend your knowledge of requirements engineering . You’ll also learn how to:

• How to apply the Business Model canvas to business scenarios
• Delivering a requirements engineering plan
• How to evaluate a problem statement and explain the Outcome Frame Stakeholder engagement skills
• How to produce non-functional requirements

At the end of this course, you’ll sit the BCS exam, and achieve your BCS Professional Certificate in Advanced Requirements Engineering certification.

Through Firebrand’s Lecture | Lab | Review methodology, you’ll get certified at twice the speed of the traditional training and get access to courseware, learn from certified instructors, and train in a distraction-free environment.

Audience

This course is ideal for:

• People who want to extend their knowledge of the requirements engineering framework
• Business architects, business analysts, project managers and business managers

Module 1: The Enterprise Context (12.5%)

• Enterprise Architecture
• Explain the rationale for enterprise and business architecture.
• Define the Enterprise Architecture domains
• Explain the structure of the Zachman framework including: the columns (what, how, where, who, when, why) and the rows (contextual, conceptual, logical, physical, detailed, functioning).
• Business Architecture
• Apply the Business Model Canvas to business scenarios.
• Identify and analyse capabilities.
• Develop a value stream diagram
• Explain the use of capabilities in enabling a value stream.
• Customer and user experience
• Define customer experience and user experience.
• Distinguish customer experience from user experience.

Module 2: The Business Analysis Service Portfolio (7.5%)

• Service thinking and value propositions
• Define the principles of service thinking and value co-creation.
• Explain the concept and attributes of a value proposition.
• The Business Analysis Service Framework (BASF).
• Define the services within the Business Analysis Service Framework (BASF).
• Explain the context and use of the BASF in relation to the delivery of the requirements definition service.
• Project, programme and portfolio management
• Define project, programme and portfolio management and explain the relationship between each.
• Define the relationship between requirements engineering and project, programme and portfolio management.
• Requirements governance
• Explain the process of requirements governance using SIPOC (Supplier, Input, Process, Output, Customer).
• Explain the relationship between IDEF0 controls and mechanisms in relation to requirements governance.
• Explain requirements engineering within the context of an agile or iterative change delivery approach using a product backlog.
• Explain requirements engineering within the context of a traditional or waterfall change delivery approach using a requirements catalogue or business requirements document.

Module 3: The Requirements Engineering Plan (15%)

• Programme Manager, Project Manager, Business Architect
• Define the roles and responsibilities of the Programme Manager, Project Manager and Business Architect.
• Terms of reference for requirements engineering
• Describe the content of a terms of reference for requirements engineering.
• Problem definition and problem statements
• Evaluate a problem statement
• The Outcome Frame
• Explain the Outcome Frame.
• Planning for requirements engineering
• Illustrate an understanding of the importance of planning for requirements engineering.
• Analyse stakeholders using the RACI technique.
• Explain the relationship between requirements planning and requirements governance.
• Describe the content of a requirements engineering plan.
• Distinguish between linear and agile software development approaches.
• Estimating for requirements engineering
• Describe the top down, bottom up and PERT approaches to estimation.

Module 4: Engaging with Stakeholders (15%)

• Relevance of elicitation techniques:
• Analyse a given scenario using the cultural web
• Levels of listening
• Apply the levels of listening to a given scenario.
• Listening barriers and behaviours
• Identify listening barriers and behaviours.
• Apply listening barriers and behaviours to a given scenario.
• Explain questioning approaches.
• Assertiveness
• Define assertiveness.

Module 5: The Requirements Taxonomy (15%)

• The hierarchy of requirements
• Explain the importance and application of the hierarchy of requirements.
• Identify requirements that are Business Requirements (General and Technical).
• Identify requirements that are Solution Requirements (Functional and NonFunctional)
• Identify transition and user interface requirements
• Explain the influence of business strategy on requirements.
• Explain the influence of business ethos and core values on requirements.
• The Business Use Case Diagram
• Describe the Business Use Case Diagram.
• Describe how the Business Use Case Diagram relates to requirements.
• Explain the relationship between customer experience and requirements using the Business Use Case. 5.3. Prioritisation techniques
• Apply MoSCoW and the Kano model to prioritise requirements.
• Decomposition of requirements and priorities
• Discuss the importance of decomposing requirements and their priorities.
• Identify the difference between goal and functional decomposition.
• Requirements traceability and re-use
• Explain the rationale for requirements traceability and the approach to achieving traceability.
• Describe the advantages of requirements reuse.
• Explain the rationale for requirements patterns.

Module 6: Non-Functional Requirements: Customer Experience Requirements (15%)

• User role attributes and personas
• Identify the user role attributes for a given scenario.
• Illustrate the use of the persona technique.
• Apply user role analysis.
• Usability requirements
• Explain the components of usability requirements.
• Learnability.
• Satisfaction.
• Efficiency.
• Memorability.
• Errors or error protection.
• Accessibility requirements
• Define the six steps of the AEGIS Open Accessibility Framework.
• Identify and apply the key principles of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1).
• Look and feel requirements
• Define look and feel requirements.
• Visualisation techniques
• Identify visualisation techniques to elicit non-functional requirements.

Module 7: Non-Functional Requirements: Service Quality Requirements (15%)

• Rationale for service quality requirements
• Explain the rationale for service quality requirements.
• Performance requirements
• Define the elements of performance:
• Speed of response.
• Scalability.
• Longevity.
• Availability.
• Capacity.
• Accuracy.
• Backup and recovery requirements
• Describe the relationship between business risk, business continuity, and backup and recovery strategy.
• Archiving and deletion requirements
• Describe the impact of legislation and compliance on archiving and deletion requirements.
• Maintainability and reliability requirements
• Analyse a given situation to identify maintainability and reliability requirements.
• Describe the relationship between maintainability and reliability requirements.
• Security and access requirements
• Explain access permission requirements and techniques to elicit and document them.
• Explain security requirements and techniques to elicit them.
• Explain and apply the misuse case approach.

Module 8: Acceptance and Approval of Requirements (5%)

• Quality assurance for requirements engineering
• Explain requirements quality assurance.
• Distinguish between quality assurance and quality control
• Analysis and validation of requirements engineering outputs
• Explain the importance of requirements analysis.
• Explain the importance of requirements validation.
• Validation and the requirements engineering plan
• Describe the relationship between requirements planning and requirements quality.
• Acceptance testing
• Describe the relationship between requirements and the v-model.
• Apply the ‘given’, ‘when’, ‘then’ extension to a user story

At the end of this accelerated course, you’ll sit the following exam at the Firebrand Training centre, covered by your Certification Guarantee:

BCS Professional Certificate in Advanced Requirements Engineering exam

• Duration: 90-minute
• Format: ‘closed book’ with 40 multiple choice questions
• Number of questions: 40
• Passing score: Pass mark is 65% (26/40)

There are no prerequisites for this accelerated course but we recommend that candidates have gained the BCS Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering beforehand.

Your accelerated course includes:

• Accommodation *
• Meals, unlimited snacks, beverages, tea and coffee *
• On-site exams **
• Exam vouchers **
• Practice tests **
• Certification Guarantee ***
• Courseware
• Up-to 12 hours of instructor-led training each day
• 24-hour lab access
• Digital courseware **

* For residential training only. Accommodation is included from the night before the course starts. This doesn't apply for online courses.
** Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts.
*** Pass first time or train again free as many times as it takes, unlimited for 1 year. Just pay for accommodation, exams, and incidental costs.

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*For residential training only. Doesn't apply for online courses
**Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts

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