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Just Enough Requirements Management: Where Software Development Meets Marketing
- By Alan Davis
- Published Jul 17, 2013 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Dorset House eBooks series.
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- Copyright 2014
- Edition: 1st
- eBook
- ISBN-10: 0-13-349129-3
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-349129-6
This is the digital version of the printed book (Copyright © 2005).
If you develop software without understanding the requirements, you're wasting your time.
On the other hand, if a project spends too much time trying to understand the requirements, it will end up late and/or over-budget. And products that are created by such projects can be just as unsuccessful as those that fail to meet the basic requirements.
Instead, every company must make a reasonable trade-off between what's required and what time and resources are available.
Finding the right balance for your project may depend on many factors, including the corporate culture, the time-to-market pressure, and the criticality of the application. That is why requirements management—gathering requirements, identifying the "right" ones to satisfy, and documenting them—is essential.
Just Enough Requirements Management shows you how to discover, prune, and document requirements when you are subjected to tight schedule constraints. You'll apply just enough process to minimize risks while still achieving desired outcomes. You'll determine how many requirements are just enough to satisfy your customers while still meeting your goals for schedule, budget, and resources.
If your project has insufficient resources to satisfy all the requirements of your customers, you must read Just Enough Requirements Management.
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Table of Contents
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Preface
Chapter One: Introduction 3
Requirements 3
Requirements Management 6
Just Enough 8
The Context of Requirements 10
The Relationship Between Schedule and Requirements 18
The Components of Requirements Management 23
The Importance of Requirements Management 36
Chapter Two: Requirements Elicitation 40
Definitions and Terminology 40
Why Do Elicitation? 45
Elicitation Techniques 45
The Result of Elicitation 59
The Secrets of Just Enough Elicitation 61
Chapter Three: Requirements Triage 63
Definitions and Terminology 63
Why Do Triage? 67
Basic Triage Techniques 68
Advanced Triage Techniques 97
The Result of Triage 115
The Secrets of Just Enough Triage 116
Chapter Four: Requirements Specification 119
Definitions and Terminology 119
Classic Requirements Documentation Styles 122
The Content of a Requirements Document 125
The Role of a Requirements Document 127
Qualities of a Requirements Document 128
Specification Techniques 136
The Result of Specification 156
The Secrets of Just Enough Specification 161
Chapter Five: Requirements Change 163
Where Do Changes Come From? 164
How to Keep Track of Requested Changes 165
Choices for Handling the Changes 165
The CCB Meeting 170
The Secrets of Just Enough Change 171
Chapter Six: Summary 172
Requirements Elicitation 173
Requirements Triage 174
Requirements Specification 175
Requirements Change Management 176
Appendix A: Quick Recipes 177
Brainstorm 178
Decide What Is or Isn't a Requirement 183
Decide What to Build 185
Produce a Requirements Document 188
Assess the Quality of a Requirements Document 190
Baseline the Requirements 192
Ensure That Everybody Knows the Requirements 192
Handle New Requirements After Baselining 194
Handle Multiple Customers 196
Appendix B: A Set of Documented Requirements 200
References and Additional Readings 209
Index 227
About the Author 239