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The BCS Requirements Engineering course is for people who need to define, communicate and manage requirements more effectively throughout business and technology change.
Business analysts who elicit, analyse or manage requirements
Product, project and change professionals who work with stakeholder needs
Professionals responsible for requirements quality, traceability or change control
Candidates working towards the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis
No. There are no formal prerequisites for BCS Requirements Engineering, and the BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis is not required.
Yes. Requirements Engineering is one of the two compulsory core modules for the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis. The other is BCS Business Analysis Practice.
Choose Requirements Engineering when your main need is eliciting, analysing, documenting, validating and managing requirements. Choose BCS Business Analysis Practice when you need broader techniques for investigating business situations, defining target states, evaluating options and building business cases.
By the end of the BCS Requirements Engineering course, you should be able to plan how requirements will be handled, elicit stakeholder needs, document and model requirements clearly, validate them collaboratively, prioritise them, assure their quality and maintain traceability through change.
You will walk away with the ability to:
Plan a structured requirements engineering approach
Elicit requirements from stakeholders and other sources
Document requirements clearly and consistently
Use models and prototypes to clarify requirements
Validate requirements with stakeholders and resolve conflicts
Prioritise requirements and assess their quality
Maintain traceability and manage requirements change
Understand the role of requirements engineering within business analysis and the activities used to move from business needs to agreed requirements.
Define how requirements will be elicited, documented, analysed, validated, prioritised and controlled.
Select appropriate elicitation techniques and record requirements in a clear, usable form.
Use models and prototypes to explore, clarify and communicate functional and data requirements.
Work with stakeholders to review requirements, resolve differences and confirm that requirements accurately represent business needs.
Analyse requirements for completeness and consistency, agree priorities and apply quality criteria.
Maintain traceability, control changes and keep requirements aligned with evolving business needs.
Private instructor-led delivery can be arranged for organisations either live online or face-to-face. Request a quote here.
The BCS Requirements Engineering exam checks your understanding of the requirements engineering framework and the techniques used to elicit, analyse, document, validate and manage requirements.
The exam covers the requirements engineering framework, planning the approach, elicitation, documentation, modelling, validation, analysis, prioritisation, quality and requirements management.
Complete the full course, practise applying the terminology and techniques, and use the sample papers so that you are familiar with the style and pace of the assessment.
A provisional result is available immediately after the exam. BCS then confirms the result and makes the digital certificate available through the BCS e-professional portal.
Yes. The Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering is one of the two compulsory core certificates required for the BCS International Diploma.
You can retake the exam. A further exam fee applies unless a specific resit offer is included with your booking.
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No formal experience is required. The course introduces the framework and then develops the techniques used to elicit, analyse, document, validate and manage requirements.
No. Foundation is not a prerequisite for this practitioner module.
Yes. The exam is included with both instructor-led and self-paced study.
The official BCS manual is included with instructor-led training. It is not included with self-paced study.
Instructor-led training runs over 3 days. Self-paced study contains around 16 hours of learning and remains available for 12 months.
Yes. It is one of the two core modules required for the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis.
Requirements Engineering focuses on defining and managing what a solution needs to deliver. BCS Modelling Business Processes focuses on understanding, modelling and improving how work is performed through business processes.
Yes. If you do not pass, you can purchase another exam attempt.
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