REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT
Overview
The CPRE Requirements Management module focuses on the management and control of requirements throughout the project lifecycle. Requirements often change during a project and effective management is critical to keep cost, time, and quality under control. This module teaches you techniques for managing requirements and changes to requirements in agile and traditional development processes as well as reporting in Requirements Engineering. Requirements management is central to both plan-based and agile approaches.
Audience
This module is aimed at people working in the areas of RE, business analysis, business engineering, software and system development, project management, and release planning. Manage your requirements successfully in the long term!
Mastering Control: CPRE Requirements Management
Take your skills beyond the basics with the CPRE Requirements Management specialization. This module dives deep into the lifecycle of requirements—covering prioritization, versioning, change management, traceability, and variant handling.
Learn how to structure and maintain high-quality requirements that evolve with your project and align with stakeholder needs.
Exam Structure
- No. of Questions: approx. 45
- Total Points: 40
- Passing Score: 26
- Exam Length (mins): 75 (+25% Non-Native Language)
Content
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What is requirements management?
Understand the differences between Requirements Engineering and requirements management, the tasks and goals of requirements management, and the importance of a requirements management plan.
Requirements landscape and requirements information model
Get to know the basic classifications of requirements and their forms of representation and learn how to create a requirements information model.
Attribution and views for requirements
Learn the purpose and benefits of attribution in management activities, as well as the benefits of attribution schemes and how to define and analyze views.
Evaluation and prioritization of requirements
Understand the basic properties of evaluation and how it relates to prioritization and learn how to apply and combine different prioritization techniques.
Version and change management
Get to know the activities of version control and the main reasons for changes to requirements and learn about the tasks of a change control board.
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Traceability of requirements
Understand the definition and benefits of traceability and learn how to implement traceability in your projects.
Variant management for requirements
Learn the basics of variant management and get to know techniques and methods for managing variants.
Reporting in requirements management
Understand the goals and benefits of reporting and learn the techniques and tools used for reporting in requirements management.
Management of requirements engineering processes
Learn how to manage RE processes and integrate them into higher-level processes.
Special features of requirements management in agile projects
Learn how requirements are handled in an agile context and find out which techniques and tools are suitable for agile requirements management.
- Manage agile and traditional RE processes
- Evaluate, prioritize, and trace requirements
- Use tools for effective requirements management
Skills Taught
Key skills that you will acquire through this module:
- Management of agile and traditional Requirements Engineering processes
- Reporting in requirements management
- Selection and use of tools to support requirements management
- Structuring and attribution of requirements, as well as the creation of dedicated views of requirements
- Evaluation and prioritization of requirements
- Version and change management and traceability
- Variant management for requirements
Training and certification
The CPRE Foundation certificate (Level 1) is a prerequisite for the thematic deepening at the next level; alternatively, a BCS Practitioner certificate in RE is also accepted:
Level 2 | CPRE Requirements Management Practitioner
This certification allows you to learn the content and build the skills necessary to effectively manage requirements. You will receive the certificate after successfully passing the multiple-choice exam.
The CPRE Requirements Management Practitioner certificate (Level 2) entitles you to aim for the certificate at the next level:
Level 3 | CPRE Requirements Management Specialist
This certification proves that you have the skills necessary to successfully apply requirements management in various project situations. The examination is conducted by means of a written assignment in the student’s own project context.
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