Software Requirements (Developer Best Practices)

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Now in its third edition, this classic guide to software requirements engineering has been fully updated with new topics, examples, and guidance. Two leaders in the requirements community have teamed up to deliver a contemporary set of practices covering the full range of requirements development and management activities on software projects.

Describes practical, effective, field-tested techniques for managing the requirements engineering process from end to end.Provides examples demonstrating how requirements “good practices” can lead to fewer change requests, higher customer satisfaction, and lower development costs.Fully updated with contemporary examples and many new practices and techniques.Describes how to apply effective requirements practices to agile projects and numerous other special project situations.Targeted to business analysts, developers, project managers, and other software project stakeholders who have a general understanding of the software development process.Shares the insights gleaned from the authors’ extensive experience delivering hundreds of software-requirements training courses, presentations, and webinars.

New chapters are included on specifying data requirements, writing high-quality functional requirements, and requirements reuse. Considerable depth has been added on business requirements, elicitation techniques, and nonfunctional requirements. In addition, new chapters recommend effective requirements practices for various special project situations, including enhancement and replacement, packaged solutions, outsourced, business process automation, analytics and reporting, and embedded and other real-time systems projects.

From the Publisher

Benefits This Book Provides

Of all the software process improvements you could undertake, improved requirements practices are among the most beneficial.

Our objective is to help you improve the processes you use for eliciting and analyzing requirements, writing and validating requirements specifications, and managing the requirements throughout the software product development cycle. The techniques we describe are pragmatic and realistic. Both of us have used these very techniques many times, and we always get good results when we do.

Who Should Read This Book

Business analysts or requirements engineers on a development project.

The technical team members who are creating and reviewing effective requirements.

Marketers and product managers specifying the features and attributes.

Project managers planning and tracking the project’s requirements activities and deal with requirements changes.

Includes practical, proven techniques that can help you to Write high-quality requirements from the outset of a project Deliver high-quality information systems and commercial products Manage scope creep and requirements changes Satisfy customers with the products they want Reduce maintenance, enhancement, and support costs

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00JDMPMOA
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Microsoft Press; 3rd edition (August 15, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 15, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 27230 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 1248 pages