Advanced Topics -

Writing Interface Requirements, Performing Requirement Allocation and Traceability

Course Category: Advanced
Course Duration: 1 day
Course Credit: **7 PDU

  • ** Applications are in and awaiting approval
Prerequisites: A ReqExperts Fundamentals Seminar or Equivalent

On-Site Course Pricing:

  • 15 or Fewer Students: $7400
  • 16-30 Students: $9300

Two of the more difficult skills to learn involve writing interface requirements and conducting requirements allocation and traceability in an effective manner. These topics are covered at an introductory level in other seminars, but this seminar gets into the significant details that are not available in the earlier classes because of time constraints. Also, it often takes some experience improving other requirement skills before tackling these details. This seminar will take students to the next step in these topics and improve your requirement process in these areas.

Course Objective

More effectively write interface requirements and use allocation and traceability for improving requirement completeness and quality.

Develop skills to enable you to:

  • Overcome problems you have encountered in writing or documenting interface requirements
  • Develop appropriate and useful documentation for interface requirements
  • Perform allocation in support of requirement analysis
  • Know how to use allocation and traceability to improve your requirement process
  • Use traceability and allocation to find missing or incorrect information in requirements.

Course Outline

  • Assess your answers to the quiz – student's grade themselves
  • Discuss problems and issues encountered in writing and managing interface requirements
  • Interface Requirements
    • Different types of interfaces
    • Techniques for identifying interfaces
    • Major categories of interfaces
    • Expansion of categories
    • Where and how to document an interface
    • What goes in your specification
    • How interfaces are verified
  • Discuss problems and issues encountered in allocation and traceability and existing return on investment from these activities
  • Allocation and Traceability of Requirements
    • Levels refresher
    • Allocation of Resources
    • Allocation of all other requirements
    • Using allocation to analyze requirements quality
    • How to do traceability
    • Using trace to analyze requirements
    • Combining allocation and traceability for completeness and consistency of requirements

Intended Audience

This is for those who have mastered the fundamentals of writing requirements but need help in writing and negotiating better interface requirements and who want to use allocation and traceability to ensure consistency and completeness of requirements.

  • Managers
  • System Engineers
  • Requirement Analysts
  • Requirement Engineers
  • Business Analysts

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