BOOK: The Software Requirements (Memory Jogger)
A handy guide by Ellen Gottesdiener. This inch-thick “pocket book” is easy to carry around and browse through when a busy requirements analyst has a few minutes to spare.
Ellen addresses all aspects of the requirements engineering process:
- elicitation,
- analysis,
- specification,
- validation, and
- management.
Each chapter contains a wealth of practical techniques that can help any software team improve how it deals with requirements. She describes a plethora of requirements “models,” ways to represent different types of requirements-related information.
Every technique is placed in a context so the reader can learn why to use it, what it does, and how to do it. The book presents scores of practical tips, based on Ellen’s vast experience working with actual teams to develop requirements for software products.
And best of all Ellen uses a case study showing how to use the tools, techniques, and models in each step of the requirements-gathering process, which is employed to elicit, analyze, specify, validate, and manage software requirements.
ONLY ONE THING MISSING…..I wish the handling of dynamically changing requirements was addressed that we see in our projects more and more.
No worries — there is a great “virtual workshop” available that complements her book in this area excellently. Check it out at click here.
This book is definitely a handy guide that no Project Manager – Product Manager – Requirements or Business Analyst should be without.
