BCS Practitioner Certificate In Requirements Engineering - India 

Module 1: Define Requirements Approach and Project Scope

• What is a Requirement?
• Requirements Engineering Framework
• Rationale for Requirements Engineering
• Requirements and Business as Usual
• Origin of Requirements
• Planning Your Approach
• Definition of a Project
• Business Inputs to Requirements
• Business Case
• Terms of Reference (ToR)
• Project Initiation Document (PID)
• Common Problems
• Origin of Errors
• Correction Cost

Module 2: Elicit Requirements

• Knowledge Types
• Knowledge Types: Tacit
• Knowledge Types: Tacit Vs Explicit
• Tacit to Explicit Knowledge
• Elicitation Techniques
• Interviews
• Interview Lifecycle
• Workshops
• Workshop Lifecycle
• Observation
• Scenario Analysis
• Document Analysis
• Identify an Appropriate Technique

Module 3: Record Requirements

• Categories of Requirement
• Hierarchy of Requirements
• Business Objectives to Solution Delivery
• Business: General Requirements
• Business: Technical Requirements
• Solution Requirements
• Solution: Functional Requirements
• Functional Requirement Examples
• Solution: Non-Functional Requirements (NFR)
• Uncovering Non-Functional Requirements
• Why Document?
• Documentation Styles
• Characteristics to Document
• User Stories
• User Story Characteristics

Module 4: Build Models and Prototypes to Represent the Requirements

• Modelling the Business Context for IT Systems
• Purpose of Modelling Requirements
• Modelling Functionality and Data
• What is a Use Case?
• Use Cases
• Use Case Diagram Levels
• Actors and the System Boundary
• Use Case Notation
• ‘Include’ Relationship
• ‘Extend’ Relationship
• Reminder: Use Case Diagram
• Individual Use Case Documentation
• Use Case Description: Elements
• Use Case Description Template
• Use Case Description Example
• Main and Alternate Flows
• Column/Table Use Case Format
• Modelling Data
• Why Model Data?
• Class Diagrams
• Class     
• Attributes
• Multiplicity of the Association
• Reading the Class Model
• Modelling Requirements
• Requirements Supported
• CRUD Matrix
• CRUD Matrix – Cross Checking
• Prototyping
• Prototyping Requirements
• Types of Prototype

Module 5: Collaborate and Communicate with Stakeholders to Clarify Requirements

• What is a Stakeholder?
• Stakeholders Involved in RE
• Reviews
• During the Review
• Post – Review
• Agile Validation
• Business Requirements Documents

Module 6: Analyse, Prioritise, and Assure the Quality of Requirements

• Analysis in Context
• Requirements, Not Solutions
• Poorly Expressed Requirements
• Business Rules
• Quality Checklist
• INVEST
• Slicing Requirements
• Feasibility
• Testability
• Overlaps and Duplication
• Conflicts
• Ambiguity
• Structuring Requirements
• Priority (MoSCoW)

Module 7: Conduct User Analysis and Profiling

• User Role Analysis
• Personas
• Customer Journey Map

Module 8: Requirements Management and Traceability

• Requirements Management
• Fundamentals for Management
• Baselining and Version Control
• Change Control
• Sources of Change
• Traceability