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Book : Writing Better Requirements (2002)

Summary

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Well-written requirements are crucial to systems of all kinds: you are unlikely to get what you want unless you ask for it. This book explains and demonstrates exactly what requirements are for, and how to write them.

Content / Structure

Foreward by Dr. Ralph R. Young

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

• Why Do Requirements Matter?
• Who Are Requirements for?
• Different Names for Requirements
• Different Types of Specification
• The Challenge of Writing Better Requirements
• The Requirements Writing Process

2 Identifying the Stakeholders

• Different Types of Stakeholder
• Your House Extension: a Simple Case?
• A Practical Approach to Identifying Stakeholders

3 Gathering Requirements from Stakeholders

• Possible Techniques
• Interviews
• Workshops
• Experiencing Life as a User

4 Other sources of Requirements

• Possible Sources
• Getting Requirements for Mass-Market Products
• User Requirements in Subsystem Projects

5 Structuring the Requirements

• You Need Structure as Well as Text
• Breaking Down the Problem Into Steps
• Organizing Requirements Into Scenarios
• Examples of Goal Decomposition
• Handling Exceptions
• Examples and Exercises in Requirement Structure

6 Requirements in Context

• The User Requirements Document
• Organizing the Constraints
• Defining the Scope
• Requirements Attributes
• Keeping Track of the Requirements

7 Requirements Writing

• Quality, not Perfection
• Sketch, then Improve
• Anatomy of a Good Requirement
• Guidelines for Good Requirements
• Don't Write Like This

8 Checking and Reviwing

• 8.1 Checking the Document Structure with Users
• 8.2 Checking the Requirements
• 8.3 reviewing
• 8.4 Success - the Reviewed Document

Summary

Appendix: example User requirements

Answers to Exercises

Glossary

Further Reading

Index

Copyright Pearson Education Ltd. 2002

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