Rational RequisitePro: Essentials

Course Overview

This course uses Rational RequisitePro, Rational's tool for capturing and managing the changing requirements of a project. You gain an understanding of Rational RequisitePro's project structure and use the tool to apply software development best practices as recommended in the Rational Unified Process. You define document and requirement types, define requirements and attributes, create Rational RequisitePro documents, import project data, explore hierarchical relationships and examine traceability.

Hands-on exercises are used to enhance concepts presented in the Rational Requirements Management with Use Cases course. The computer laboratories guide you through building and adding data to a class project. Laboratories completed in class focus on applying the tool in a work environment.

Audience

The Rational RequisitePro introductory course is intended for Rational RequisitePro end users; any team member that will use Rational RequisitePro to capture, manage and interact with the requirements of the project. The primary audience consists of business and requirements analysts.!

Skills Gained

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Understand Rational RequisitePro project structure and components
• Use Rational RequisitePro effectively to create and build a project
• Customise and define project properties
• Create, enter, and revise requirements, attributes, and documents
• Define hierarchies of requirements
• Trace requirements to one another
• Manage the changing requirements of a project
• Use views, queries and metrics to filter requirements information
• Participate in group discussions

Prerequisites

Students would benefit from having taken:

Requirements Management with Use Cases. This three day course provides training in eliciting and managing the changing requirements of a project, with use-case modelling techniques. Requirements Management with Use Cases is an excellent introduction to the process of requirements management and is often delivered immediately before the Rational RequisitePro course.

Students should be familiar with: Requirements management and the software development lifecycle

Course Outline

This course provides a fundamental understanding of how to use Rational RequisitePro in a real project environment. Each module in the course covers both a requirements management workflow detail in the Rational Unified Process and a set of Rational RequisitePro features that are helpful in that workflow (with a laboratory for learning those features).

Rational RequisitePro: Essentials / RR331 (RR331GB)