Risk Analysis, Assessment, and Prioritization looks at how you can manage conflicts at system levels, but it can also be applied to lower level assessments. How do you manage and document conflict, along with alternatives? In analyzing alternatives, you must consider risks. In this course, we'll look into how to analyze risk, evaluate risk, document risks, and use this information for prioritization of requirements. Qualitative and Quantitative approaches will be covered.
This course is part of the Requirements Engineering: Secure Software Specifications Specialization
Software Requirements Prioritization: Risk Analysis
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Requirements Engineering: Secure Software Specifications SpecializationUniversity of Colorado System
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week
14 hours to complete
Risk Analysis, Assessment and Prioritization
Once requirements have been somewhat/mostly determined, we next need to go carefully through our work. This involves analyzing risk, assessing alternative plans, and prioritizing. In this module, we examine how to begin documenting conflicts and generating conflict resolution.
3 videos (Total 16 min), 2 readings, 3 quizzes
3 videos
Documenting Conflicts6m
Generating Conflict Resolution5m
2 readings
Introduction | Documenting Conflicts | Conflict Resolution - Slides30m
Bringing Security into Risk Analysis2h
3 practice exercises
Module 1.1 Practice Quiz6m
Module 1.2 Practice Quiz6m
Managing Conflicts30m
Week
24 hours to complete
Dealing with Risk
Risk goes far beyond security. Most non-functional requirements are part of risk analysis. In this lesson, we discuss different types of risks, how they can be identified, and how to visualize a causal linking of failures, causes, and consequences using risk trees and cut-set trees.
2 videos (Total 12 min), 3 readings, 2 quizzes
3 readings
A risk taxonomy proposal for software maintenance2h
What is Risk? A taxonomy document1h
What is a Risk? |Cut-Set Trees - Slides30m
2 practice exercises
Module 2 Practice Quiz6m
Dealing with Risk30m
Week
32 hours to complete
Controlling Risk
In writing use cases and scenarios, we'll discover risk in the interactions. Interactions may happen out of order, to quickly or slowly, or not occur at all. In risk assessment, we assess the likelihood of risks and their severity, the likelihood of consequences, and thus, attempt to control high-priority risks.
2 videos (Total 11 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes
2 readings
Software risk management: principles and practices1h
Risk Assessment | Risk Control and Countermeasures - Slides30m
2 practice exercises
Module 3 Practice Quiz6m
Controlling Risk30m
Week
45 hours to complete
Incorporating Risk Management into Your Process
Many approaches can be used to incorporate risk management into your software requirements engineering process. One is Defect Detection Prevention (DDP). We can also analyze alternatives qualitatively and quantitatively. We discuss Defect Detection Prevention, Value Cost Prioritization, and the Analytic Hierarchal Process in this module and how these techniques can be scaled for every day use.
4 videos (Total 27 min), 4 readings, 3 quizzes
4 videos
Evaluating Alternatives3m
Quantitative Risk Prioritization: Analytic Hierarchic Process13m
Risk Analysis, Assessment, and Prioritization Conclusions... and Reminders1m
4 readings
Risk-Driven Revision of Requirements Models2h
AHP using Excel11m
Reducing the cost of AHP using Machine Learning1h 30m
Risk Management through Analysis, Assessment, Prioritization | Conclusions - Slides10m
3 practice exercises
Module 4.1 Practice Quiz6m
Module 4.2 Practice Quiz6m
Risk Management30m
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Kristen Walcott-Justice
Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Computer Science
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About the Requirements Engineering: Secure Software Specifications Specialization
This specialization is intended for software engineers, development and product managers, testers, QA analysts, product analysts, tech writers, and security engineers. Even if you have experience in the requirements realm, this course will expand your knowledge to include new viewpoints, development styles, techniques and tools.
For anyone seeking a graduate degree, certificate, or professional degree in computer science, these courses will additionally give you a broad understanding of how requirements engineering is performed and help you get a first foot forward into your upcoming careers.
The Software Requirements specialization focuses on traditional software requirements elicitation and writing techniques, while also looking at requirements from a security standpoint. In traditional methods, non-functional requirements, such as security, are often ignored overall. In this specialization, students will be introduced to ways of eliciting requirements from stakeholders, how to analyze these requirements, conduct risk mitigation and analysis, prioritize requirements, document, and bring security concerns into the software lifecycle early on.
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