Upcoming dates – book directly
No suitable date listed? Request a date or run the seminar as an in-house format – at your site from four participants.
Who is this course for?
This seminar is aimed at requirements managers and systems analysts, business and domain experts, consultants, developers, testers, and project managers and leaders.
What will you gain?
With this course you complete a globally recognised, standardised training and continuing-education programme. You learn the fundamentals of requirements engineering from a practical perspective. On completing the seminar, you will know the methods needed to systematically elicit, document, reconcile and manage requirements. You are also able to steer those requirements across the entire software lifecycle.
Seminar content
- Fundamentals: motivation and relevance, communication theory, types of requirements
- System and system context
- Eliciting requirements: requirement sources, requirement categories
- Elicitation techniques: survey techniques (interviews, questionnaires), creativity techniques, observation and document-centric techniques, supporting techniques (workshops, prototypes)
- Documenting requirements: design and structuring, documentation types, quality criteria and glossaries
- Natural-language documentation: linguistic effects, sentence templates
- Model-based documentation: goal models, structural-perspective models, functional-perspective models, behavioural-perspective models
- Validation and reconciliation: quality aspects, review techniques, conflict resolution
- Managing requirements: attributes, views and prioritisation, traceability and versioning, requirement changes
- Tool support
- Hands-on exercises
Catering
At all our in-person seminars we take care of your catering: the seminar price includes hot and cold drinks as well as morning and afternoon snacks.
And beyond that?
At the end of the seminar you have the option to sit the IREB® Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering exam and earn the corresponding certificate. The exam fee is €265 plus VAT and can be added during booking.
Related consulting
Want to apply the content directly in an ongoing project? These consulting areas complement the seminar one-to-one in practice:
In-house seminars
We also deliver this seminar exclusively for your staff on site at your company. If you are interested, we would be glad to prepare a tailored offer.
Frequently asked questions about the IREB® CPRE Foundation Level
IREB, CPRE, Foundation Level – what do the names mean?
IREB® is the International Requirements Engineering Board, CPRE stands for Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering, Foundation Level is the entry level. People also search for “IREB certification”, “requirements engineering certificate” or “requirements management training” – it means this seminar.
Where do I sit the CPRE exam and what does it cost?
The exam is optional, exam fee €265 plus VAT. It is administered by an IREB®-licensed certification body such as iSQI or GASQ; the seminar prepares you specifically for the exam format.
What does the seminar cost and how long does it take?
Three days; online €1,190 plus VAT, in person €1,300 plus VAT (surcharge for venue and catering). Bookings more than one month before the start receive the 10 % early-bird discount. Dates and booking in the seminar list.