Three- Reflective Journal

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MODULE 1MODULE 1

Introduction to Business Information Systems

Requirement Engineering

Introduction:

Requirements management is a method of de�ning, using, modelling,

documenting, maintaining, and measuring requirements throughout the

software process. This helps developers explore requirements management

and how it supports systems engineering and software engineering life

cycles. Develop techniques for eliciting requirements and identifying good

requirements. Represent requirements graphically by utilising powerful

uni�ed modelling language (UML) diagramming techniques. Develop skills

to e�ectively manage requirements changes and techniques for measuring

requirement quality through quantitative metrics.

This subject will teach the student the process of gathering the

requirements right the �rst time and using the technical tools and scienti�c

managerial method to re�ne the requirement, eventually this knowledge

would help to achieve something to market sooner for your client/

organization. The concept, procedures and tools of requirement

engineering would be applied to real world cases. Case studies, which are

highly related to the process of requirement engineering will also be

discussed over the modules.

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Apart from the technical skills of requirement engineering, people skills are

playing a dominant role in requirement engineering. Students will need to

learn how to ask interview questions to receive the useful and quality

information from your client/ organization, how to prepare the e�ective

slides for presentations and how to communicate and explain the functions

that would be implemented to ful�l the requirements precisely with your

client/ organizations. There skills will be developed while learning UML, the

diagramming techniques.

Students will learn particularly the problem-solving skills, which also depict

the art of requirement engineering. It requires the high-level data analytical

skills and business management skills. Students will need to use their

experience of information system development and the knowledge of

advancements of technology to help the clients/ organization to optimise

their decisions.

This Module will cover:

This module contains two parts. If you are taking this subject in the standard

12-week trimester model, then each half of the module will have a week

dedicated to studying it.

Module 1.1 –

In the �rst half of the module, an introduction to Requirements Engineering. Mainly, you will discover the concept of requirement engineering, by what reason IS students/ future IS related employees will need the knowledge of requirement engineering, when the knowledge of requirement engineering would be applied, and which steps will be involved in requirement engineering process. These four questions will be discussed and explored over the �rst half module.

Module 1.2 –

The second half module will discuss the principles of requirement engineering applications in details. By applying the basic knowledge of requirement engineering, which are elaborated in Module 1.1,

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students are required to research on the successful information system development process and explore the role of requirement engineering.

This Module will help you achieve the following outcomes:

a) Describe and re�ect the concept and process of Requirement Engineering

b) Improve the understanding of Requirement Engineering and how they contribute to the successful information system development process

c) Re�ect on the real-world business cases and explore when, what and how the knowledge of Requirement Engineering will be applied.

Assessment Progression:

a) Assessment 1 is due at the end of week 4: Group presentation: How Requirement Engineering is applied at Company XX.

b) Assessment 2 is due at the end of week 8: Individual assignment: UML your own business idea of an information system

c) Assessment 3 is due at the end of week 12. Individual assignment: Self-re�ection report

This module, like all of them, provides some powerful conceptual and

preparative ideas for the preparation of your assessments. Remember that

we have built the module on the model of the �ipped classroom, which

means that you should come to class having read all the material already.

We will then attempt the learning activities in the classroom, and these have

been designed speci�cally to sca�old your learning and allow you to

attempt activities that are very closely aligned to the assessments. The idea

is that you get feedback on your learning as it happens in the time that is

most e�cient for you and the learning facilitator.

Class Expectation:

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Consider what it means to ‘study.’ Too often, students read their course

material once and consider that their cursory glance was ‘studying.’ It could

not be farther from the truth: do not fall into the trap of reading something

once and deluding yourself to thinking you have ‘studied’ it. Studying means

reading, re-reading several times, making notes, following up on concepts

that did not make sense, consulting the dictionary on words you did not

already know, drawing pictures of concepts, making mind maps,

summarising, annotating, highlighting and then quizzing yourself on what

you just learned. HD students will then attempt to �nd other sources

through the library, or they will borrow a textbook and actively look for

contradictions so that they can explore and resolve ambiguities. They will

�nd quizzes online that challenge their critical thinking and will be putting

together their �rst or next two-to-three drafts of their assessment.

If you have enrolled in this subject in the standard 12-week delivery mode,

then every week, you will supplement the time in class that has been

scheduled for you with approximately 9 hours of self-directed study time. It

is during that time that you will do most of your study and it is expected that

you will have done it. In this subject, the expectation is that you have

studied—using the de�nition above—all of the module content before you

arrive in class. You will then be required to actively participate in the

activities that occur in the class. You should come to the class with

questions for the learning facilitator and you should be prepared to lead,

problem solve, negotiate, communicate, and use your time e�ciently and

wisely.

You should always be respectful to others in the class, being careful to be inclusive and sensitive to the varied cultures that are in the class with you. You will be careful to balance active participation with absconding from monopolising the discussion. Most importantly, you should expect that the class will begin on time and that if you are late, you will be disrupting the learning of others.

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