Mastering the Requirements Process: Getting Requirements Right, 3rd edition

Published by Addison-Wesley Professional (August 6, 2012) © 2013

  • Suzanne Robertson Atlantic Systems Guild
  • James Robertson
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Getting the requirements right is crucial if we are to build systems that best meet our needs. We know, beyond doubt, that the right requirements produce an end result that is as innovative and beneficial as it can be, and that system development is both effective and efficient.
Mastering the Requirements Process: Getting Requirements Right sets out an industry-proven process for gathering and verifying requirements, regardless of whether you work in a traditional or agile development environment. In this sweeping update of the bestselling guide, the authors show how to discover precisely what the customer wants and needs, in the most efficient manner possible.
Features include
  • The Volere requirements process for discovering requirements, for use with both traditional and iterative environments
  • A specification template that can be used as the basis for your own requirements specifications
  • Formality guides that help you funnel your efforts into only the requirements work needed for your particular development environment and project
  • How to make requirements testable using fit criteria
  • Checklists to help identify stakeholders, users, non-functional requirements, and more
  • Methods for reusing requirements and requirements patterns
  • Chapter 1: Some Fundamental Truths 
  • Chapter 2: The Requirements Process
  • Chapter 3: Scoping the Business Problem
  • Chapter 4: Business Use Cases
  • Chapter 5: Investigating the Work
  • Chapter 6: Scenarios
  • Chapter 7: Understanding the Real Problem
  • Chapter 8: Starting the Solution
  • Chapter 9: Strategies for Today’s Business Analyst
  • Chapter 10: Functional Requirements
  • Chapter 11: Non-functional Requirements
  • Chapter 12: Fit Criteria and Rationale
  • Chapter 13: The Quality Gateway
  • Chapter 14: Requirements and Iterative Development 
  • Chapter 15: Reusing Requirements
  • Chapter 16: Communicating the Requirements
  • Chapter 17: Requirements Completeness
  • Appendix A: Volere Requirements Specification Template
  • Appendix B: Stakeholder Management Templates
  • Appendix C: Function Point Counting: A Simplified Introduction
  • Appendix D: Volere Requirements Knowledge Model

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