20 Best Practices for Developing and Managing Requirements on Any
Project
Software Requirements Essentials presents 20 core practices for
successful requirements planning, elicitation, analysis, specification,
validation, and management. Leading requirements experts Karl Wiegers
and Candase Hokanson focus on the practices most likely to deliver
superior value for both traditional and agile projects, in any
application domain. These core practices help teams understand business
problems, engage the right participants, articulate better solutions,
improve communication, implement the most valuable functionality in the
right sequence, and adapt to change and growth.
Concise and tightly focused, this book offers just enough pragmatic
"how-to" detail for you to apply the core practices with confidence,
whether you're a business analyst, requirements engineer, product
manager, product owner, or developer. Using it, your entire team can
build a shared understanding of key concepts, terminology, techniques,
and rationales--and work together more effectively on every project.
Learn how to:
- Clarify problems, define business objectives, and set solution
boundaries
- Identify stakeholders and decision makers
- Explore user tasks, events, and responses
- Assess data concepts and relationships
- Elicit and evaluate quality attributes
- Analyze requirements and requirement sets, create models and
prototypes, and set priorities
- Specify requirements in a consistent, structured, and well-documented
fashion
- Review, test, and manage change to requirements
"I once read the ten best-selling requirements engineering books of the
prior ten years. This one book succinctly presents more useful
information than those ten books combined."
--Mike Cohn, author of User Stories Applied and co-founder, Scrum
Alliance
"Diamonds come about when a huge amount of carbon atoms are compressed.
Karl and Candase have done something very similar: they have compressed
their vast requirements knowledge into 20 gems they call 'core
practices.' These practices are potent stuff, and I recommend that they
become part of everyone's requirements arsenal."
--James Robertson, author of Mastering the Requirements Process
and Business Analysis Agility
"Long story short: if you are going to read only one requirements book,
this is it. Software Requirements Essentials distills the wealth of
information found in Software Requirements and many other texts down
to twenty of the most important requirements activities that apply on
nearly all projects. Today's busy BA simply doesn't have the time to
read a lengthy instructive guide front-to-back. But they should find the
time to read this book."
--From the Foreword by Joy Beatty, COO, ArgonDigital
*"*Software Requirements Essentials will be a high-value addition to
your business analysis library. Anyone looking to improve their business
analysis practices will find great practical advice they'll be able to
apply immediately."
--Laura Paton, Principal Consultant, BA Academy, Inc.
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