Software Requirements 3 Author: Joy Beatty | Language: English | ISBN:
B00EJX7WDW | Format: PDF
Software Requirements 3 Description
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.
- File Size: 25973 KB
- Print Length: 672 pages
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
- Publisher: Microsoft Press; 3 edition (August 14, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00EJX7WDW
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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I have been an avid reader and fan of Karl’s software development related books ever since my university days and now as a lead practitioner and trainer, I continue to find more value in his work. I had the honor of interviewing both Karl and Joy to learn about some behind-the-scenes information on how this new edition was updated. I was pleased to learn about their due diligence to ensure they’ve left no stone unturned to bring forward the latest and greatest in software requirements engineering.
The organization of the book, the emphasis on the role of a business analyst, and an in-depth requirements discovery and development roadmap are some of the key strengths of this edition. The first part sets the context and introduces a few best practices for requirements engineering. This is essential, and in my view applicable to all roles involved in software development.
Part II of the book covers the requirements development process, best practices in-depth for both waterfall and agile projects. As you read through this section, you will realize that the best practices are truly methodology agnostic, and imperative regardless of the business analysis approach.
One of the big challenges of a requirements practitioner is how to tailor the requirements discovery and development process for different projects, and Part III of the book precisely addresses this facet. This was something that always wished that a book would contain as I continue to work on different kinds of projects as a lead business analysis practitioner.
I was also pleased to see an entire section of the book devoted to requirements management aspect (Part IV).
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