This is an IIBA endorsed course, dedicated to studying the “Requirements Life Cycle Management” knowledge area of the BABOK Guide 3.0. The training discusses the tasks of tracing and maintaining requirements, as well as on prioritizing, approving, and reusing them. It explains the use of requirement patterns and addresses the matters of requirements change management.
8 hours
English
Online
To be determined
Once a requirement has been elicited, it needs to be managed correctly to meet several goals:
This course covers all these points and considers a requirement just as an accounting object – that has its own life cycle and certain processing technology. The course has built on the corresponding knowledge area of the BABOK Guide v.3.0, which is an internationally recognized standard for the practice of business analysis. It summarizes the experience of leading business analysts around the world and describes 30 major tasks of business analysis, along with 50 techniques that are commonly used for solving these tasks.
The major challenge with self-studying the BABOK Guide is that, while describing typical tasks of business analysis, it does not explain when and how one should perform these tasks. It assumes that business analysts shall be able to answer these questions on their own, based on their personal experience and specifics of a particular project. Besides that, the BABOK Guide provides very few examples that might help analysts relate the theoretical knowledge to their daily practice.
The purpose of this course is to overcome that challenge. A systematic explanation of Requirements Life Cycle Management tasks is accompanied by detailed elucidation based on real-life examples from both the instructor’s personal experience and world practice. The course takes into consideration specifics of requirements management in different approaches (waterfall, iterative, Agile). The students will perform training exercises that help consolidate their understanding. Besides that, within the course participants will explore several examples of IIBA certification exam questions.
This course provides 8 professional development hours (PD hours) for further IIBA certification.
The course instructors are professional business analysts with rich hands-on experience in a variety of projects.
The primary objective of this course is to provide an understanding and develop skills for solving tasks of requirements life cycle management, as they are described in BABOK Guide 3.0. Besides that, the course is intended to facilitate the completion of certification through a better understanding of BABOK Guide content and certification exam questions.
The course is oriented towards business analysis practitioners and other specialists who are involved in maintaining and managing requirements, with particular interest to those who are planning completion of level 2 or 3 of IIBA certification.
Students are expected to have a good grasp of the key concepts of business analysis and generic stakeholder roles, the ability to distinguish different types of requirements, and the ability to tell requirements from designs, as well as at least one year of experience with eliciting, documenting, or analyzing requirements.
We highly recommend completing an introductory course on business analysis before attending this one.
This course covers the following topics:
| Topic | Lection, hours | Practice, hours |
| Intro | ||
| Definitions | 0,5 | |
| Types of Requirements and Accompanying Information | 0,7 | |
| Requirements life cycle management tasks | ||
| Trace Requirements | 1 | 0,3 |
Maintain Requirements |
1,2 |
0,7 |
||
Prioritize Requirements |
1 |
0,2 |
||
Assess Requirements Changes |
0,5 |
0,2 |
||
Approve Requirements |
0,7 |
0,3 |
||
Examples of Exam Questions |
0,8 |
|||
Wrap-up |
0,2 |
|||
5,7 (71%) |
2,3 (29%) |
