Discovering Requirements

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"This book is not only of practical value. It's also a lot of funto read." Michael Jackson, The Open University. Do you need to know how to create good requirements? Discovering Requirements offers a set of simple, robust, andeffective cognitive tools for building requirements. Using workedexamples throughout the text, it shows you how to develop anunderstanding of any problem, leading to questions such as: * What are you trying to achieve? * Who is involved, and how? * What do those people want? Do they agree? * How do you envisage this working? * What could go wrong? * Why are you making these decisions? What are you assuming? The established author team of Ian Alexander and Ljerka Beus-Dukicanswer these and related questions, using a set of complementarytechniques, including stakeholder analysis, goal modelling, contextmodelling, storytelling and scenario modelling, identifying risksand threats, describing rationales, defining terms in a projectdictionary, and prioritizing. This easy to read guide is full of carefully-checked tips andtricks. Illustrated with worked examples, checklists, summaries,keywords and exercises, this book will encourage you to move closerto the real problems you're trying to solve. Guest boxes from otherexperts give you additional hints for your projects. Invaluable for anyone specifying requirements including ITpractitioners, engineers, developers, business analysts, testengineers, configuration managers, quality engineers and projectmanagers. A practical sourcebook for lecturers as well as students studyingsoftware engineering who want to learn about requirements work inindustry. Once you've read this book you will be ready to create goodrequirements!

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