Webinar: The 9 principles of good Requirements Engineering

Many companies rush into building IT solutions before achieving a shared understanding of end-users’ and stakeholders’ needs and expectations.

This often results in assumptions and misunderstandings that ultimately lead to developing the wrong system.

Typical symptoms include missing, unclear, or incorrect requirements. The causes can range from rushing into development, to communication problems between involved parties, to assuming that requirements are self-evident, or simply lacking the necessary knowledge and skills within requirements engineering.

To avoid this, you can work professionally and in a structured way with Requirements Engineering to specify and manage requirements. This ensures that the systems implemented and deployed truly satisfy the stakeholders’ needs and expectations.

The Value of Requirements Engineering

Requirements Engineering adds value throughout the development and evolution of a system by:

• Reducing the risk of developing the wrong system
• Creating a better understanding of the problem
• Providing a reliable basis for estimating development effort and cost
• Serving as a prerequisite for effective testing

In this webinar, we will cover one of the topics from the international certification course IREB – Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) Foundation level. 
This course provides a professional and structured approach to working with requirements and helps participants avoid many of the common pitfalls mentioned above.

About IREB

IREB® (International Requirements Engineering Board) is a non-profit organization that provides CPRE (Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering) certification.
At the end of 2020, IREB released a major update of the Foundation Level syllabus. The CPRE is a personal certification aimed at professionals working in Requirements Engineering, Business Analysis, and Testing. Today, more than 60,000 people worldwide hold a CPRE certificate.

The 9 Principles of Good Requirements Engineering

A key new topic in the CPRE Foundation Level is the definition of the Fundamental Principles of Requirements Engineering—a clear set of principles forming the foundation for the practices in the syllabus:

1. Value-orientation: Requirements are a means to an end, not an end in themselves.
2. Stakeholders: Requirements Engineering is about satisfying stakeholders’ needs.
3. Shared understanding: Successful systems development is impossible without a common foundation.
4. Context: Systems cannot be understood in isolation.
5. Problem – Requirement – Solution: An inevitably intertwined triple.
6. Validation: Non-validated requirements are useless.
7. Evolution: Changing requirements are not accidental but the norm.
8. Innovation: More of the same is not enough.
9. Systematic and disciplined work: Requirements Engineering demands structured effort.

In this webinar, Hans van Loenhoud will explain these principles and their relevance for software development and testing.

Date & Time

The webinar was held on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, from 09:00 to 10:00 (CET).

Language

This webinar was held in English.

Target group

This webinar is for anyone interested in improving their work with requirements in IT. It is particularly relevant for business analysts, requirements engineers, developers, testers, product owners, scrum masters, and project managers with some professional experience.