Software Requirements Essentials: Core Practices for Successful Business Analysis

20 Best Practices for Developing and Managing Requirements on Any Project
Software Requirements Essentials presents 20 core practices for successful requirements planning, elicitation, analysis, specification, validation, and management. Leading requirements experts Karl Wiegers and Candase Hokanson focus on the practices most likely to deliver superior value in both traditional and agile projects, in any application domain. These core practices help teams understand business problems, engage the right participants, articulate better solutions, improve communication, implement the most valuable functionality in the right sequence, and adapt to change and growth.

Concise and tightly focused, this book offers just enough pragmatic "how-to" detail for you to apply the core practices with confidence, whether you're a business analyst, requirements engineer, product manager, product owner, or developer. Using it, your entire team can build a shared understanding of key concepts, terminology, techniques, and rationalesand work together more effectively on every project.

You'll learn how to

Clarify problems, define business objectives, and set solution boundaries

Identify stakeholders and decision makers

Explore user tasks, events, and responses

Assess data concepts and relationships

Elicit and evaluate quality attributes

Analyze requirements and requirement sets, create models and prototypes, and set priorities

Specify requirements in a consistent, structured, well-documented fashion

Review, test, and manage change to requirements

"I once read the ten best-selling requirements engineering books of the prior ten years. This one book succinctly presents more useful information than those ten books combined."

Mike Cohn, author of User Stories Applied and co-founder, Scrum Alliance