Audience

Our course in writing useful requirements is suitable for anyone who seeks the basics of requirements and requirements management, and also wants to understand how requirements relate to other elements of systems engineering. 

To fully appreciate the course, we recommend some earlier education in systems engineering (e.g. our footPrint course DW101 Systems Engineering Basics) and a few years’ experience of working in a technology-intensive organization.

Outcome

After this course, you will have a fundamental understanding of what you need for creating, analyzing, and maintaining useful requirements. You will also have practiced your skills in requirements formulation and review.

Themes

• Fhat is requirements and how can we use them?
• Different types of requirements
• Define objectives for useful requirements
• Describing requirements using scenarios and models
• Structured formulation of requirements
• Defining effective requirements attributes
• Requirements relations for decomposition, traceability and other sources of information
• Creating a logical structure for your requirements specification
• Requirements specification in the specification tree
• Requirements prioritization, analysis, and requirements management in practice
• Reviewing and understanding requirements