Foundation level – start working effectively in RE

The CPRE Foundation level is your entry into the world of Requirements Engineering (RE). With this certificate, you will learn the basic principles, methods, and techniques for professionally eliciting, documenting, and managing requirements. Clear and well-defined requirements are the basis for successful projects. The CPRE Foundation level provides you with a solid foundation to enable you to avoid misunderstandings, minimize risks, and thus ensure the quality of the results.

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Expand your knowledge

The CPRE Foundation level provides you with a deep understanding of the principles, activities, practices, and work products of Requirements Engineering. It is designed to provide you with a sound knowledge of the fundamentals of Requirements Engineering.

Learn how to elicit, document, validate, and manage requirements. You will also learn how to adapt the RE process to different project situations and how to apply essential practices for managing requirements.

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Skills taught

Through the CPRE Foundation level, you will acquire valuable skills that will significantly increase your professional competence. These skills will enable you to manage and document requirements even more effectively, leading to better project outcomes.
The key skills you will acquire through this module include:

  • Understanding the basic principles of RE
  • Understanding which work products are used in RE to document different types of requirement
  • Understanding the practices for identifying sources of requirements and requirements themselves, and for validating requirements
  • Understanding the practices for identifying and resolving requirements conflicts
  • Understanding that an RE process must be adapted to the respective situation
  • Understanding the essential practices for managing requirements

Contents

  1. Introduction to and overview of Requirements Engineering

    Learn about the basics and importance of Requirements Engineering, what a requirements engineer does, and why this role is crucial.

  2. Basic principles of Requirements Engineering

    Understand the nine principles that underpin Requirements Engineering and learn how these principles are applied in practice.

  3. Work products and documentation practices

    Gain an insight into the different types of work products in Requirements Engineering and learn about the advantages and disadvantages of natural language, template-based, and model-based documentation.

  4. Practices for the development of requirements

    Learn how to identify and document requirements from different sources and learn techniques for conflict resolution and validation of requirements.

  5. Process and work structure

    Understand the factors influencing the Requirements Engineering process and learn how to configure an RE process and adapt it to the respective project situation.

  6. Practices for requirements management

    Gain in-depth knowledge of requirements management and learn how to manage the life cycle of requirements, handle changes, and set priorities.

  7. Tool support

    Find out which tools can be used in Requirements Engineering and learn about the rollout and use of these tools to support the RE process.

Target group

Do you deal with requirements? If you do, the CPRE Foundation level is just right for you! Whether you are a project manager, business analyst, product owner, UX and CX expert, or tester, the CPRE Foundation level is the certificate for you!

Training and certification

The path to the CPRE Foundation level is open to you, there are no access restrictions! You will receive the certificate after successfully passing the multiple-choice exam.

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