About this Course

This course teaches analysts and engineers how to define, elaborate, organize, and manage textual and graphical requirements and requirements-related information in IBM® Rational® Requirements Composer. The course also teaches how to plan, create, configure, and manage Rational Requirements Composer projects.

Rational Requirements Composer is a key component of the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM). The product provides requirements definition and management capabilities in a fully-integrated environment that can also include IBM® Rational Team Concert™ for change and configuration management, and IBM® Rational® Quality Manager for quality management.

Audience Profile

This basic course is for:

• Analysts
• Business analysts
• System analysts
• Project managers
• IT managers
• Process engineers
• Developers
• User experience engineers
• Quality assurance team
• Technical writers
• Architects

At Course Completion

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

• View and work with requirements and requirements-related information in a collaborative context
• Capture, define, elaborate, and edit requirements and requirements-related information, including both textual and graphical artifacts
• Create and manage traceability relationships between requirements and requirements- related information
• Organize and analyze requirements
• Create and configure projects
• Manage requirements projects
• Plan, create, configure, and close projects

Course Outline

1. Navigating Rational Requirements Composer
2. Capturing requirements
3. Defining business processes
4. Creating a use-case model
5. Creating a user-interface sketch and storyboard
6. Organizing requirements
7. Reviewing requirements
8. Managing a project
9. Reporting on requirements
10. Planning a project
11. Creating and configuring a project
12. Closing a project
13. Collaborative Lifecycle Management overview
14. Migrating projects from IBM® Rational® RequisitePro® to Rational Requirements Composer project