Structure a systems engineering management plan aligned with recognised life cycle processes.
Project Management
Systems Engineering and Requirements Verification in Technical Projects
A course in systems engineering method for technical projects: requirements management, architecture, the V-model, verification and validation, and configuration control.
🗓️Duration5 training days
📚Content4 modules · 8 sessions
🎓On completionAccredited attendance certificate
About the programme
Course Overview
Technical projects rarely fail because a component was built incorrectly; they fail because a requirement was never captured precisely enough to build against, or because no one could prove afterwards that the delivered system actually met it. Systems engineering provides the discipline that connects a stakeholder need to a verified, working system through defined architecture, traceable requirements and planned verification, and this course teaches it as a practical method rather than as abstract theory. Participants learn to structure a systems engineering management plan aligned with recognised system life cycle processes, decompose a system into functional and physical architecture, and write requirements that are specific and testable rather than ambiguous or compound. The course works through the V-model relationship between decomposition and verification, the difference between verifying against a specification and validating against the original need, and the configuration management discipline that keeps requirements, design and as-built records consistent as change inevitably occurs. A closing module covers interface control and independent technical assurance for systems where failure has serious consequences.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Decompose a system into functional and physical architecture that exposes its interfaces.
Write requirements that are specific, unambiguous and testable rather than compound or vague.
Build a requirements traceability matrix linking needs through design to verification evidence.
Select the correct verification method of test, analysis, inspection or demonstration for a requirement.
Distinguish validation against stakeholder need from verification against specification.
Operate configuration management and change control across requirements, design and as-built records.
Who Should Attend
Systems engineers and technical leads on complex engineering or defence projects.
Project managers overseeing technical projects with formal verification obligations.
Requirements engineers and business analysts capturing and tracing technical requirements.
Quality and assurance staff auditing verification and configuration management records.
Test engineers planning verification and validation activity across system integration levels.
Design authorities responsible for configuration control boards and technical baselines.
Course Modules
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01Systems Engineering Foundations for Technical Projects
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1The Systems Engineering Lifecycle and Management Plan
- Align systems engineering lifecycle stages with recognised system life cycle processes.
- Define the content and ownership of a systems engineering management plan.
- Distinguish technical review milestones from the project's commercial gate reviews.
- Scale systems engineering rigour to match the technical complexity of the project.
Session 2Functional and Physical Architecture
- Decompose a system into functional and physical architecture before detailed design begins.
- Use functional flow block diagrams and interface matrices to expose hidden interfaces.
- Allocate requirements down through the architecture hierarchy to identifiable components.
- Run architecture trade studies comparing candidate system designs against defined criteria.
02Capturing and Managing Requirements
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Requirements Elicitation and Writing Testable Requirements
- Elicit requirements systematically from stakeholders, operators and applicable standards.
- Write requirements that are specific, testable and free of ambiguous language.
- Separate compound requirements into individually verifiable statements.
- Categorise requirements as functional, performance, interface or constraint.
Session 2Requirements Traceability and Change Control
- Build a requirements traceability matrix linking stakeholder need to design and verification.
- Maintain bidirectional traceability from requirement through to verification evidence.
- Baseline requirements formally before allowing controlled change against them.
- Assess the impact of a late requirement change across design, cost and schedule.
03Verification and Validation Planning
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Verification Methods and the V-Model
- Apply the V-model relationship between system decomposition and progressive verification.
- Select test, analysis, inspection or demonstration as the verification method for each requirement.
- Build a verification cross-reference matrix linking requirements to method and evidence.
- Plan verification activity at each level of system integration from component to system.
Session 2Validation, Integration and Test
- Validate the delivered system against the original stakeholder need, not just the specification.
- Sequence integration from subsystem level up to full system level testing.
- Conduct a test readiness review before committing to formal qualification testing.
- Manage non-conformances discovered during verification testing through to resolution.
04Configuration, Interfaces and Assurance
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Configuration Management for Technical Baselines
- Identify configuration items and establish baseline control over them.
- Operate a configuration control board that decides on engineering change proposals.
- Maintain consistency between requirements, design and as-built configuration records.
- Account for configuration status formally to support audit and certification.
Session 2Interface Control and Technical Assurance
- Maintain interface control documents between subsystems and with external systems.
- Commission independent technical assurance and design review boards for critical elements.
- Maintain a technical risk register distinct from commercial and schedule risk registers.
- Build certification and regulatory acceptance evidence directly from the verification record.
What the participant receives
4 course modules
A structured syllabus
8 training sessions
across 5 days
32 detailed points
Applied, detailed content
Accredited attendance certificate
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