Continuous Requirements Engineering and Product Management, 7.5 credits

The course focuses on the problems that arise when managing requirements in a changing and cost-sensitive reality. The course discusses challenges related to large-scale requirements engineering and market-driven requirements engineering. Areas such as continuous requirements engineering, requirements engineering process improvement, quality requirements, value, and technical product management are discussed and related to industry practice.

Responsible:Blekinge Institute of Technology (Richard Berntsson Svensson)

Course Modules:

Module 1 – Introduction
(Richard Berntsson Svensson/Krzysztof Wnuk)

This module will consists of the following topics:

• Introduction to requirements engineering and product management
• Basic terminology and definitions
• Define and scope continuous requirements engineering and product management
• Experiences from industrial applications

Module 2 – Processes and Methods for Continuous Requirements Engineering.
(Richard Berntsson Svensson/Krzysztof Wnuk)

This module will consists of the following topics:

• Requirements engineering processes
• Practices and practical tools
• Requirements engineering in Agile software development
• Differences, similarities, benefits, and limitations

Module 3. Processes and Methods for Continuous Product Management
(Krzysztof Wnuk/ Richard Berntsson Svensson)

This module will consists of the following topics:

• Software Product Management processes/methods
• Practices and practical tools
• Agile Software Product Management
• Differences, similarities, benefits, and limitations

Module 4: Value
(Richard Berntsson Svensson/Tony Gorschek)

This module will consists of the following topics:

• Introduction to Value
• Introduction to the software value map
• Value as basis for decision-Making/roadmapping/release planning
• Measurements

Module 5: Non-Functional Requirements/Quality Requirements
(Richard Berntsson Svensson/Krzysztof Wnuk)

This module will consists of the following topics:

• Introduction to Non-Functional Requirements (NFR)/Quality Requirements (QR)
• Practices and techniques for Quality Requirements
• Practical tools/methods
• What level of quality is good enough
• Quality Requirements impact on the system/product/architecture

Module 6: Release Planning
(Richard Berntsson Svensson/Krzysztof Wnuk)

This module will consists of the following topics:

• Introduction to Release Planning and Roadmapping
• Practices and practical tools
• Release Planning concepts and ideas
• Benefits and limitations

Learning Outcomes: The student should after course completion be able to:

• Extensively understand the challenges with continuous requirements engineering and product management.
• Be able to motivate the selection of suitable techniques for continuous requirements engineering.
• In a systematic way be able to apply appropriate techniques in a large scale requirements engineering context.
• Quickly and correctly be able to deal with large amounts of requirements and a large in ux of requirements.
• Be able to plan relevant release packages for several releases of a software product.
• Be able to create a suf cient continuous requirements engineering process to deal with requirements in a largeorganisation from when the requirements enter the organisation to when they are launched as part of a product.
• Be able to reason about the challenges with, and appropriate techniques for continuous requirements engineering and product management.

Related industry challenges that are addressed in the course: The course addresses the challenges that arises when dealing with requirements in a changing and cost-sensitive reality.