IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering - Advanced Level Requirements (Management) Training Course

IREB plays an important role in standardizing requirements engineering practices, helping professionals in the field improve their skills and raising quality standards in software development processes. IREB certificates are valued in the industry as confirmation of high professional competences in management and requirements engineering.

This course demonstrates through hands-on practice the fundamentals and applications of software engineering, requirements engineering and testing.

Model Based Development (MBD) is a software development methodology that enables faster, more cost-effective development of dynamic systems such as control systems, signal processing and communication systems. It relies on graphic modeling rather than the traditional text based programming.

In this instructor-led, live training participants will learn how to apply MBD methodologies to reduce development costs and accelerate the time to market of their embedded software products.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to

• Select and utilize the right tools for implementing MBD.
• Use MBD to carry out rapid development in the early stages of their embedded software project.
• Shorten the release of their embedded software into the market.

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

This instructor-led, live training in Sri Lanka (online or onsite) is aimed at persons who wish to understand requirements analysis and conduct requirements analysis efficiently and accurately using analysis techniques for their projects.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• identify different types of requirements.
• understand the overall concepts of, and activities within, requirements analysis.
• be familiar with the requirements analysis methodology.
• use different requirements analysis techniques to their advantage.
• structure requirements in order to communicate efficiently with architects and developers through an iterative requirement gathering process.

Introduction and Overview of Requirements Engineering 

This 3 day course is delivered as live instructor-led, either online (remote) or onsite (classroom).

Through practical exercises this training will give you greater familiarity with the efficient modeling of information structures, functions, behaviors and scenarios.

Upon conclusion of the training you can take the exam to qualify as an “IREB® Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering – Advanced Level, Requirements Modeling”. 

Who is this course for ?

Requirements managers, business analysts, system and software analysts (systems engineers) and project managers.

Examination:

Additional exam fees charged when applicable.

The “IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering – Advanced Level (Modeling)” exam consists of:

CPRE Advanced Level (Modeling) – Practitioner

• The exam to achieve the Requirements Modeling - Practitioner - certificate consists
  of a multiple-choice exam.

CPRE Advanced Level (Modeling) – Specialist

• The exam to achieve the Requirements Modeling - Specialist - certificate consists of
  a written assignment.

This foundation level course addresses the needs of people involved in the topic of Requirements Engineering and Agile. This includes people in roles such as project or IT management, domain experts, system analysts and software developers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners and persons who are part of Agile organizations.

RE@Agile is inspired both by IREB’s view of Agile values as well as by an Agile view of Requirements Engineering values. Its content includes classification and assessment of Requirements Engineering work products and techniques in the context of Agile, of Agile work products and techniques in the context of Requirements Engineering, and of essential process elements in Agile product development. RE@Agile points to the motivation to use Agile in a development process.

An important area is the synergy between Requirements Engineering and Agile: Agile Principles concerning Requirements Engineering and Agile mindset in relation to the core Requirements Engineering values.

The Examination

This course is the basis for the RE@Agile Primer examination. Two different examinations are available:

• Proctored multiple-choice examination with official RE@Agile Primer certificate, similar to the CPRE Foundation Level and Advanced Level multiple-choice examinations, but 40 minutes duration.
• Online multiple-choice self-assessment with confirmation of participation.

This Advanced Level Module RE@Agile is addressed to Requirements Engineers and agile professionals. It focuses on understanding and applying practices and techniques from the Requirements Engineering discipline in agile development processes as well as understanding and applying concepts, techniques and essential process elements of agile approaches in Requirements Engineering processes. 

The Examination

This course is intended to prepare for the Advanced Level certification exams of the:

• RE@Agile - Practitioner (certificate consists of a multiple-choice exam)
• RE@Agile - Specialist (certificate consists of a written assignment)

Business analysis is the process of examining, understanding, and defining business needs in order to develop solutions that meet those needs. Jest a key element in the process of managing changes in the organization and designing new business solutions. Business analysis aims to ensure that technological, process or organizational solutions meet business goals and needs. Jest a key element in ensuring the effectiveness of projects and changes in the organization, by ensuring that the solutions introduced are accurate, feasible and fully meet business requirements.

This course focuses on the business analyst role to be successful on Agile projects. Course participants will learn how to cooperate with the Team, Product Owner, Scrum Master as well as with the Customer to facilitate the development process. Participants will go through a mock project practising common scenarios.

Summary:

A business/systems analyst solves business problems by designing information systems which execute the strategy defined by the business. These IT solutions generally achieve one of the following goals for the business: implement a new business process, increase efficiency and productivity of existing business processes, or reduce operating costs of existing processes.

This course is intended for Business Analysts including those who may want to go on and prepare for an IIBA Certification (CCBA or CBAP) and is consistent with the framework outlined by the BABOK® Version 3.0

Objectives:

• Identify the critical principles, activities, tasks, and techniques outlined in the BABOK® V3.0
• Understand the core knowledge areas, activities, tasks, deliverables, and their relationships:

Key Definitions:

BABOK® (Business Analysis Body of Knowledge) Standard for practice of business analysis and serving as a framework describing the tasks that must be performed.

CCBA® (Certified of Competency in Business Analysis) A certification offered through the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) requiring passing a test based on the BABOK® only after application approval which is based on education and experience.

CBAP®(Certified Business Analysis Professional) A certification offered through the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) requiring passing a test based on the BABOK® only after application approval which is based on education and experience.

This course will show you how to:

• Perform key functions of the business analyst by applying a solid business analysis framework
• Conduct a business needs analysis to elicit stakeholder requirements
• Apply business analysis techniques to identify key problems and potential opportunities in your enterprise
• Create effective requirements and communication plans
• Analyse and specify requirements using industry best practices
• Manage solution assessment and validation

Audience:

Business consultants, Business analysts, Project Managers, IT professionals.

Participant Profiles 

CxO, Operation Managers, Enterprise Architects, Business and System Analysts and Designers

Objective

This introduction seminar provides you with an overview of the digital business models, business and enterprise architecture frameworks as well as methodologies that organizations are trying to focus on to increase their business agility facing disruptions of the digital age.

In particular, this seminar aims at helping you to understand frameworks and reference architectures that are used worldwide to align digital business models and IT system architectures with the changing competitive landscape.

Objective:

Helping Business Analysts to understand how to efficiently model and validate their business processes and resources in order to increase business agility of their organization on the basis of their target architecture and changing market needs.

This 2 day training course aims at helping delegates to learn how to model their business processes and resources in order to adapt them to changes of their goals, strategies and impacted capabilities as part of the target architecture. On the basis of the key elements of business performance (strategies, tactics, KPI, business capabilities, etc...), delegates learn there how to elaborate a vision centric business process and resource cartography. Then, only using the appropriate BPMN and UML notation adapted to their language, they understand how to adapt them to changing strategies, tactics and policies.