Software Requirements Essentials: Core Practices for Successful Business Analysis

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Essentials of Software Requirements
	Requirements Defined
	Good Practices for Requirements Engineering
	Who Does All This Stuff?
	Some Recurrent Themes
	The Life and Times of Requirements
	Getting Started
Chapter 2: Laying the Foundation
	Practice #1: Understand the problem before converging on a solution
		Business Problems
		Eliciting the Real Problems
		Keeping the Business Problem in Focus
		Related Practices
		Next Steps
	Practice #2: Define business objectives
		Business Requirements
		Business Objectives
		Success Metrics
		Product Vision
		Related Practices
		Next Steps
	Practice #3: Define the solution’s boundaries
		Refining the Solution Concept
		Setting the Context
		Expanding the Ecosystem
		Applying the Solution’s Boundaries
		Related Practices
		Next Steps
	Practice #4: Identify and characterize stakeholders
		The Quest for Stakeholders
		Stakeholders, Customers, and User Classes
		Characterizing Stakeholders
		Related Practices
		Next Steps
	Practice #5: Identify empowered decision makers
		Who Makes the Call?
		How Do They Decide?
		What Happens Following the Decision?
		Related Practices
		Next Steps
Chapter 3: Requirements Elicitation
	Practice #6: Understand what users need to do with the solution
		Focusing on Usage
		Eliciting User Requirements
		Anatomy of a Use Case
		Applying Usage-centric Requirements Information
		Related Practices
		Next Steps
	Practice #7: Identify events and responses
		Types of Events
		Specifying Events
		Related Practices
		Next Steps
	Practice #8: Assess data concepts and relationships
		Understanding Data Objects and Their Relationships
		Refining the Data Understanding
		Data Details Determine Success
		Find Data Requirements Wherever They Are Hiding
		Related Practices
		Next Steps
	Practice #9: Elicit and evaluate quality attributes
		Eliciting Quality Attributes
		Quality Attribute Implications
		Quality Attribute Trade-offs
		Specifying Quality Attributes
		Related Practices
		Next Steps
Chapter 4: Requirements Analysis
	Practice #10: Analyze requirements and requirement sets
		Analyzing Individual Requirements
		Analyzing Sets of Requirements
		Related Practices
		Next Steps
	Practice #11: Create requirements models
		Selecting the Right Models
		Using Models to Refine Understanding
		Iterative Modeling
		Related Practices
		Next Steps
	Practice #12: Create and evaluate prototypes
		Reasons to Prototype
		How to Prototype
		The Prototype’s Fate
		Related Practices
		Next Steps
	Practice #13: Prioritize the requirements
		The Prioritization Challenge
		Factors That Influence Priority
		Prioritization Techniques
		Pairwise Comparison for Prioritizing Quality Attributes
		Analytical Prioritization Methods
		Related Practices
		Next Steps
Chapter 5: Requirements Specification
	Practice #14: Write requirements in consistent ways
		Some Common Requirement Patterns
		Levels of Abstraction
		Requirement Attributes
		Nonfunctional Requirements
		Related Practices
		Next Steps
	Practice #15: Organize requirements in a structured fashion
		Requirements Templates
		The Software Requirements Specification
		Requirements Management Tools
		Related Practices
		Next Steps
	Practice #16: Identify and document business rules
		Business Rules Defined
		Discovering Business Rules
		Documenting Business Rules
		Applying Business Rules
		Related Practices
		Next Steps
	Practice #17: Create a glossary
		Synchronizing Communication
		Related Practices
		Next Steps
Chapter 6: Requirements Validation
	Practice #18: Review and test the requirements
		Requirements Reviews
		Testing the Requirements
		Acceptance Criteria
		Testing Analysis Models
		Testing Requirements Efficiently
		Pushing Quality to the Front
		Related Practices
		Next Steps
Chapter 7: Requirements Management
	Practice #19: Establish and manage requirements baselines
		Requirements Baseline Defined
		Two Baselining Strategies
		Identifying Which Requirements Are Included in a Baseline
		Getting Agreement on the Baseline
		Managing Multiple Baselines and Changes to Them
		Related Practices
		Next Steps
	Practice #20: Manage changes to requirements effectively
		Anticipating Requirement Changes
		Defining the Change Control Process
		Assessing Changes for Impacts
		After a Decision Is Made
		In Search of Less Change
		Related Practices
		Next Steps
Appendix: Summary of Practices
References
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