The updated content in the book introduces new chapters on defining data requirements, creating high-quality functional requirements, and reusing requirements effectively. Expanded sections provide deeper insights into business requirements, elicitation methods, and nonfunctional requirements. Additionally, new chapters offer practical guidance on requirements management for specific project scenarios, including system enhancements and replacements, packaged solutions, outsourced projects, business process automation, analytics and reporting, as well as embedded and real-time systems.
This book offers hope, though, for improving your “Requirements” are essential for creating successful software because they let users and developers agree on what features will be delivered in new systems. Karl Wiegers’s Software Requirements shows you how to define and get more out of software requirements with dozens of “best practices” and tips that make this book a valuable resource for both software project managers and developers.
Software design process, with dozens of tips on getting better design input from your customers and then using these requirements to generate a variety of design documents. There are numerous templates and sample documents too–a big help for the busy software manager. Several standout sections cover negotiating difficult steps in the process, particularly how to manage shifting requirements as projects move forward and keep the various users and stakeholders content throughout the software process.
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“From the first edition in 1999 through each successive edition, the guidance that Software Requirements provides has been the foundation of my requirements consulting practice. To beginning and experienced practitioners alike, I cannot recommend this book highly enough.”
–Roxanne Miller, President, Requirements Quest
