COURSE SYLLABUS
Product Specification and Requirements Management, 6 credits
Produktspecificering och kravhantering, 6 högskolepoäng
| Course Code: | TPKS26 |
| Confirmed by: | Dean Sep 1, 2016 |
| Valid From: | Aug 1, 2016 |
| Version: | 1 |
| Reg number: | JTH 2016/3548-313 |
| Education Cycle: | Second-cycle level |
| Disciplinary domain: | Technology (95%) and social sciences (5%)
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| Subject group: | DT1
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| Specialised in: | A1F
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| Main field of study: | Product Development |
Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO)
After completing the course, the student shall
Knowledge and understanding
- be familiar with the fundamental concepts of product specification
- display knowledge of the different roles engaged in product specification
- demonstrate comprehension of the methods and techniques for eliciting, capturing and documenting requirements
Skills and abilities
- demonstrate skills of engaging with product stakeholders
- demonstrate ability to prepare a product specification
- demonstrate ability to select and use modern tools for requirements management
Judgement and approach
- demonstrate ability to assess the quality of a product specification
Contents
The course serves as a retrospective of previous courses in software engineering and thus draws out the importance of requirements management as a means of ensuring successful software product delivery. It covers how to discover and capture requirements, and how to shape and structure them into a product specification. The focus is on the practical steps, models and techniques needed to obtain a complete, relevant and rigorous set of requirements to guide product development.
The course includes the following topics:
- Engaging with product stakeholders
- The roles of the product owner, the business analyst and the systems analyst
- Capturing and documenting requirements (including use cases, user stories and product backlogs)
- Using models to conduct robustness analysis
- Formal requirements specifications
- Tracking requirements, and their changes, through development to delivery
- Requirements negotiation (including QFD, Quality Function Deployment)
Type of instruction
The course will consist of lectures, seminars, exercises and practical work.
The teaching is conducted in English.
Prerequisites
Passed courses at least 90 credits within the major subject Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering (with relevant courses in Computer Engineering) In addition, completed courses Product Development in Cross-discipline Teams 1, 6 credits and (Software Product Architectures - From Chip to Enterprise, 7,5 credits and Software Product Quality Assurance, 6 credits) or (User Experience Design and Enterprise Architecture, 6 credits and IT Architecture, 7,5 credits). Proof of English proficiency is required. (or the equivalent).
Examination and grades
The course is graded 5,4,3 or Fail.
The final grading of the course is based on a weighted fusion of written exam and project work.
Registration of examination:
| Name of the Test | Value | Grading |
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| Examination | 2 credits | 5/4/3/U |
| Assignments | 1 credit | U/G |
| Project work | 3 credits | 5/4/3/U |
Other information
Exemption from entry requirement allowed according to the selection groups of the program, where the course is included.
Course literature
The literature list for the course will be provided one month before the course starts
Main textbook:
Software Requirements
by Karl Wiegers and Joy Beatty, Microsoft Press, 2013, 3rd Edition.
Additional literature:
User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product
by Jeff Patton and Peter Economy,
OReilly, 2014.
Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise
by Dean Leffingwell,
Pearson Education, 2011.
Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love
by Roman Pichler,
Addison-Wesley, 2010.
