The eLearning Series:
Systems Engineering for Software Intensive Systems

Requirements Engineering

Required Textbook

None Required

Course Objectives

The Requirements Engineering course prepares students to work cooperatively with stakeholders, to obtain better requirements by understanding their business process and their needs; to assist stakeholders to write good requirements; to set up a requirements baseline; and to manage requirements changes.

By the end of the course students will:

• Understand stakeholders' business process
• Conduct business requirements analysis
• Capture stakeholders' needs accurately
• Generate requirements alternatives for a business problem
• Transform business requirements into technical requirements
• Document system and software requirements
• Set up requirements baselines for a project
• Set up a change board to control changes to requirements
• Apply processes and tools to expedite requirements engineering tasks
• Complete 4 team assignments where students are expected to work in groups. The team assignments are designed to prepare students to use the requirements gathering process, which consists of the following:
  • Understand stakeholders' business processes
    
  • Conduct business requirements analysis
    
  • Capture stakeholders' needs accurately
    
  • Generate requirements alternatives for a business problem
    
  • Transform business requirements into technical requirements
    
  • Document system and software requirements
    
  • Set up requirement baselines for a project
    
  • Set up a change board to control changes to requirements
    
  • Apply processes and tools to expedite requirements engineering tasks

Prerequisites

To take the course effectively, you need to:

• Have a minimum of 5 years of experience in software development and maintenance
• Understand basic software engineering concepts
• Be able to participate in an Integrated Product Team (IPT) or be familiar with Collaboration Team concepts; and
• Have good communication skills

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