The 9 Principles of Good Requirements Engineering

IREB – the International Requirements Engineering Board – defines a globally accepted certification scheme on various topics regarding shaping (digital) systems and solutions.
At the end of 2020, IREB published a major update of the Foundation Level for the CPRE scheme. This Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering is a personal certificate aimed at individuals working in Requirements Engineering, Business Analysis and Testing, with 60.000 people now holding a CPRE certificate.

One of the new topics in the CPRE FL 3.0 is the definition of the Fundamental Principles of Requirements Engineering, a clear set of principles that form the basis for the practices presented in the syllabus:

Value-orientation: Requirements are a means to an end, not an end in itself.
Stakeholders: RE is about satisfying the stakeholders’ desires and needs.
Shared understanding: Successful systems development is impossible without a common basis.
Context: Systems cannot be understood in isolation.
Problem – Requirement – Solution: An inevitably intertwined triple.
Validation: Non-validated requirements are useless.
Evolution: Changing requirements are no accident, but the normal case.
Innovation: More of the same is not enough.
Systematic and disciplined work: We can’t do without in RE

In this webinar, Hans van Loenhoud will explain these principles and their practical significance for BA.

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