Discovering Requirements: How to Specify Products and Services | Date: 28 April 2011, 07:31
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Discovering Requirements: How to Specify Products and Services
By Ian Alexander, Ljerka Beus-Dukic
* Publisher: Wiley
* Number Of Pages: 476
* Publication Date: 2009-04-20
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0470712406
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780470712405
Product Description:
“This book is not only of practical value. It’s also a lot of fun to read.” Michael Jackson, The Open University.
Do you need to know how to create good requirements?
Discovering Requirements offers a set of simple, robust, and effective cognitive tools for building requirements. Using worked examples throughout the text, it shows you how to develop an understanding 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-Dukic answer these and related questions, using a set of complementary techniques, including stakeholder analysis, goal modelling, context modelling, storytelling and scenario modelling, identifying risks and threats, describing rationales, defining terms in a project dictionary, and prioritizing. This easy to read guide is full of carefully-checked tips and tricks. Illustrated with worked examples, checklists, summaries, keywords and exercises, this book will encourage you to move closer to the real problems you’re trying to solve. Guest boxes from other experts give you additional hints for your projects. Invaluable for anyone specifying requirements including IT practitioners, engineers, developers, business analysts, test engineers, configuration managers, quality engineers and project managers. A practical sourcebook for lecturers as well as students studying software engineering who want to learn about requirements work in industry. Once you’ve read this book you will be ready to create good requirements!Summary: Great book, both easy and fun to read and still with lots of detailsRating: 5Ian Alexander and Ljerka Beus-Dukic have done a wonderful job with this book. I have not found any other books so far that are focused solely on the discovery phase of the systems and software requirements process and consequently no others cover the topic in so much depth. They really just have exactly the right amount of details in order to understand and start using the concepts covered. It's a book that is well designed for beginners in requirements who want to understand how to elicit requirements, but it is also full of useful ideas for the more experienced requirements practitioners. They cover most of the possible requirements elicitation techniques with suggestions on how to use them, as well as situational contexts in which you would need to elicit requirements. I like the overall organization of the book, as it is laid out in a very logical manner making it easy to follow. In general it is very easy to read as well. While maintaining a professional tone, they have made it quite enjoyable to read. There are many stories (project specific and fun ones!) to put the concepts in context and to me, those make the book. And if you complete the exercises they have included in each chapter, you can ensure you really grasp the concepts. What I like about the practice exercises is that the answers are not simply "right or wrong" but include a discussion about them each. Finally I'll comment that this book is extremely practical for someone in industry trying to improve at discovering requirements. The authors have used real-world experiences to build out the ideas written about and as you read it, you can't help but understand how you'd do the same things on your projects. This is one of the best requirements books I have read - both in content and ease of reading!
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