The SOPHIST RE-Primer – requirements engineering, short & clever
The compact English introduction to requirements engineering. Free from the SOPHISTs.
The feature is finished – but it’s not what the business side had in mind. Weeks of work, and the discussion starts all over again. That is exactly where requirements engineering earns its keep. The RE-Primer shows you the fundamentals: how to elicit knowledge, derive good requirements, impart them and manage them.
You’re in the right place if this sounds familiar:
- Requirements get discussed for weeks, and the delivered result is still not what anyone had in mind.
- Ambiguous or contradictory requirements only surface late in the project, when fixing them is expensive.
- Business, development and testing each understand something different by the very same requirement.
- You write specifications under time pressure, without a structure you can rely on.
Who is the RE-Primer for?
Particularly helpful if …
- You want a compact, well-founded overview of requirements engineering fundamentals in English.
- You are starting out as a requirements engineer, business analyst or product owner and want a solid foundation.
- You work in an international team and need a shared English vocabulary for requirements work.
- You want orientation across the whole discipline before going deeper with a training or certification.
Less suitable if …
- You are looking for a deep dive into a single technique – the RE-Primer is an overview, not a handbook.
- You already have years of RE practice and expect advanced special topics only.
- You prefer reading in German – then our German RE-Fibel is the better choice for you.
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3 reasons the download is worth it
The whole discipline at a glance
All four main activities in one brochure: eliciting knowledge, deriving good requirements, imparting them and managing them – plus how they connect to agility, systems engineering and business analysis.
English terms for international teams
The RE-Primer gives you and your team a shared English vocabulary for requirements work – from the definition of a requirement to the SOPHIST Set of REgulations.
From project practice, not just theory
Written by consultants who work with requirements every day – with a continuous smart home example that makes the methods easy to follow and apply.
What’s inside the RE-Primer
The RE-Primer answers questions you run into in every development project:
- What exactly is a requirement – and why do the SOPHISTs define the term more broadly than usual?
- What are the four main activities of requirements engineering, and how do they fit together?
- How do you elicit knowledge that stakeholders can’t simply write down for you?
- How does the SOPHIST Set of REgulations help you spot dangerous linguistic effects in requirements?
- How much requirements management actually makes sense for your project?
- How do requirements engineering and agility go together?
- What do systems engineering, business analysis and smart ecosystems have to do with your requirements?
Who’s behind the RE-Primer
We SOPHISTs have been consulting, training and supporting companies in requirements engineering and systems engineering since 1996 – from automotive and medical technology to the public sector. Chris Rupp, founder of SOPHIST, helped shape the CPRE certification principle as a founding member of the IREB, and as a CPRE Platinum Partner we are still involved in developing the syllabi today. We actively share what we learn in projects, trainings and our books – the RE-Primer is part of our free WISSEN-for-free series. And if you want to go deeper after reading it, you’ll find trainings, consulting and hands-on project support with us.
Testimonials translated from the original German quotes.
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The compact English introduction to requirements engineering – all four main activities, clearly explained and ready to apply in your project.
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