Provider
edVirtus
Duration
2 days
Access
Public enrolment · Private / corporate
Delivery
Face-to-face · Live online
Sessions and enrolment
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Price
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Course presenters may include
Mike Ryan

About this course

An overview of the practice of writing textual requirements, suited to people who draft, review or approve function and performance specifications, including those responding to requests for tender.

The course covers the requirements engineering framework (needs, requirements, life-cycle concepts, requirement types, characteristics and attributes), elicitation and validation, conceptual design activities such as requirements breakdown structures and operational scenarios, and rules for writing requirements based on International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) guidance. Practical exercises have participants identify and correct faulty requirements before writing their own.

Course presenters may include

Who should attend

  • People who draft, review or approve function and performance specifications
  • Those responding to requests for tender

Prerequisites

  • No particular background; some familiarity with systems engineering and project management is assumed

Course outline

  1. 01

    Introduction

    Systems, systems engineering and the role of requirements engineering

  2. 02

    Requirements engineering framework

    Concepts, needs and requirements · Types, characteristics and attributes · Emergent properties

  3. 03

    Requirements engineering

    Elicitation and elaboration · Elicitation techniques · Requirements validation

  4. 04

    Conceptual design activities

    Requirements breakdown structures · Context diagram · Operational scenarios

  5. 05

    Writing requirements

    INCOSE guidelines for good requirements · Standard requirement structure · Rules for avoiding ambiguity · Requirements review

  6. 06

    Requirements writing exercises

What participants receive

  • Copy of the presenter's book Requirements Practice
  • PDF copy of the presentation slides

Training areas