CPRE Foundation Level
Requirements engineering done right, taught by people who have written bad requirements themselves.
What you will learn.
CPRE Foundation Level is IREB’s internationally recognised entry certification for requirements engineering. Over three days it covers the whole discipline across seven structured knowledge areas — eliciting requirements through interviews, workshops and observation; documenting them in natural language, templates and models; validating them against real stakeholder needs; and managing them as they change.
It’s built for business analysts, product owners, project managers, testers, developers and architects — anyone who gathers, writes or signs off requirements and is tired of the rework that vague ones cause. There are no prerequisites; it’s the right starting point whatever your role.
You leave with a shared vocabulary and a repeatable toolkit for getting requirements right the first time, plus an internationally recognised credential that doesn’t expire and opens the door to every advanced IREB module. The official IREB CPRE-FL exam is included, with the exam date based on the MSTB exam calendar, and the course is HRD Corp claimable.
Who should attend
- Business analysts moving into requirements engineering
- Product owners who need to write specifications their engineers will actually read
- QA engineers who want to understand the source of the bugs they are finding
- Project managers tired of requirements changes mid-sprint
- Technical writers and system analysts crossing over from documentation
What you can do straight away.
The full course outline.
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Module01
Introduction and Overview of Requirements Engineering
Topics
- Requirements engineering: what it is, why it matters, where and how it applies
- The roles and tasks of the requirements engineer
- What you need to learn about requirements engineering
Module02
Fundamental Principles of Requirements Engineering
Topics
- An overview of the principles
- The nine principles of requirements engineering explained
Module03
Work Products and Documentation Practices
Topics
- Work products in requirements engineering
- The three types of work products
- Requirements documents and documentation structure
- Prototypes in requirements engineering
- Quality criteria for work products and requirements
Module04
Practices for Requirements Elaboration
Topics
- Sources for requirements
- Elicitation of requirements
- Resolving conflicts regarding requirements
- Validation of requirements
Module05
Process and Working Structure
Topics
- Influencing factors
- Requirements engineering process facets
- Configuring a requirements engineering process
Module06
Management Practices for Requirements
Topics
- What requirements management is
- Life-cycle management
- Version control, configurations, baselines, attributes and views
- Traceability, handling change and prioritisation
Module07
Tool Support
Topics
- Tool support for requirements engineering
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