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The CPSA® Advanced Level Module REQ4ARC – iSAQB® Training Course in Requirements for Software Architects
MODULE REQ4ARC
Requirements for Software Architects
How to equip architects and development teams with enough requirements engineering know-how, so that they can take educated architecture decisions, based on the real needs of stakeholders?
Credit Points for REQ4ARC Training Courses
Technological Competence
TECH
0
Methodical Competence
Method
20
Communicative Competence
Comm
10
REQ4ARC
Content of the module Requirements for Software Architects (REQ4ARC)
How to equip architects and development teams with enough requirements engineering know-how, so that they can take educated architecture decisions, based on the real needs of stakeholders
Architects and development teams often get only mediocre requirements as input for their work. The goal of this module is to equip architects with enough requirements know-how, so that they can take educated architecture decisions, based on the real needs of stakeholders. They should either know how to elicit requirements (in agile and iterative approaches) or – at least – know what to ask from others in their environment.
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