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Course Outline
Block 1: Requirements without requirements engineering – good and bad practices
- Workshop 1 – where do the requirements actually come from?
- Requirements engineering or business analysis?
- Requirements engineering hidden in project management
- Agile, i.e. truly excellent requirements engineering (although hidden under exotic terminology)
- Requirements engineering is the responsibility of the programming team
- Quality will be the cost of lack of requirements engineering
Block 2: How precise should the requirements be?
- Workshop 2 – what determines the accuracy of a cookbook?
- Requirements thoroughness as a function of failure consequences
- Requirements accuracy as a function of product size and complexity
- Requirements thoroughness as a function of organizational characteristics
Block 3: Good and bad requirements
- Features (properties) of good requirements
- Useful requirements parameters and their possible values
- Good requirements as elements of the product backlog in agile
Block 4: Methods of obtaining requirements
- Workshop 3 – searching for requirements
- Business vision and requirements for the IT system
- Stakeholders: us, them and others
- The system boundary, the system context, and the rest of the world
- Requirements elicitation process
- Requirements elicitation techniques
- Validation and negotiation of requirements
Block 5: describing requirements
- Exploratory requirements definition
- Description of requirements in natural language – benefits and threats, auxiliary methods
- Requirements modeling
- Light use of incomplete modeling
- User stories
- Control flow diagrams
- Swim lane diagrams
- Data flow diagrams (contextual)
- Entity relationship diagrams
- UML: use case diagrams
- UML: activity diagrams
- UML: state transition diagrams
- UML: interaction diagrams
- UML: structural diagrams
- Requirement descriptions: formats, templates, documents or tools (ReQtest, DOORS, other tools)
Block 6: Requirements and what next?
- Estimating workload based on requirements
- Linking requirements to the system vision, to each other, to the system architecture, components, and to tests
- How to deal with changes in requirements
14 Hours
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