IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering - Advanced Level RE@Agile

As for the other Advanced Level Modules of the IREB, a prerequisite for attending the exam of the Advanced Level RE@Agile - Practitioner - is having a CPRE FL certificate. In addition, we recommend having at least one of the agile certificates (i.e. the RE@Agile Primer or any Scrum certificate) or similar knowledge about agile approaches.

This Advanced Level Module RE@Agile is addressed to Requirements Engineers and agile professionals. It focuses on understanding and applying practices and techniques from the Requirements Engineering discipline in agile development processes as well as understanding and applying concepts, techniques and essential process elements of agile approaches in Requirements Engineering processes. 

The Examination

This course is intended to prepare for the Advanced Level certification exams of the:

• RE@Agile - Practitioner (certificate consists of a multiple-choice exam)
• RE@Agile - Specialist (certificate consists of a written assignment)

1. What is RE@Agile

2. A Clean Project Start 

   • Vision and Goal Specification 
   • Specifying the System Boundary 
   • Stakeholder Identification and Management 
   • Balancing of Vision and Goals, Stakeholders, and Scope

3. Handling Functional Requirements 

   • Different levels of requirements granularity 
   • Identification, documentation and communication of functional requirements 
   • Working with user stories 
   • Splitting and grouping techniques 
   • Knowing when to stop decomposing 
   • Project and Product Documentation of Requirements 

4. Handling Quality Requirements and Constraints 

   • Understanding the importance of quality requirements and constraints 
   • Adding Precision to Quality Requirements 
   • Quality Requirements and Backlog 
   • Making Constraints Explicit 

5. Prioritizing and Estimating Requirements 

   • Determination of business value 
   • Business Value, Risks, and Dependencies 
   • Estimating User Stories and Other Backlog Items 

6. Scaling RE@Agile 

   • Scaling Requirements and Teams 
   • Criteria for structuring Requirements and Teams in the Large 
   • Roadmaps and Large Scale Planning 
   • Product Validation