Apply best practices for capturing, analyzing, and implementing software requirements through visual models—and deliver better results for your business. The authors—experts in eliciting and visualizing requirements—walk you through a simple but comprehensive language of visual models that has been used on hundreds of real-world, large-scale projects. Build your fluency with core concepts—and gain essential, scenario-based context and implementation advice—as you progress through each chapter. 
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<li>Transcend the limitations of text-based requirements data using visual models that more rigorously identify, capture, and validate requirements</li> <li>Get real-world guidance on best ways to use visual models—how and when, and ways to combine them for best project outcomes</li> <li>Practice the book’s concepts as you work through chapters</li> <li>Change your focus from writing a good requirement to ensuring a complete system</li> </ul>

Visual Models for Software Requirements (Developer Best Practices)

Computers & Technology

Beatty, Joy

Chen, Anthony

Operating Systems

Microsoft Press

Now in its third edition, this classic guide to software requirements engineering has been fully updated with new topics, examples, and guidance. Two leaders in the requirements community have teamed up to deliver a contemporary set of practices covering the full range of requirements development and management activities on software projects. <ul>
<li>Describes practical, effective, field-tested techniques for managing the requirements engineering process from end to end.</li> <li>Provides examples demonstrating how requirements "good practices" can lead to fewer change requests, higher customer satisfaction, and lower development costs.</li> <li>Fully updated with contemporary examples and many new practices and techniques.</li> <li>Describes how to apply effective requirements practices to agile projects and numerous other special project situations.</li> <li>Targeted to business analysts, developers, project managers, and other software project stakeholders who have a general understanding of the software development process.</li> <li>Shares the insights gleaned from the authors’ extensive experience delivering hundreds of software-requirements training courses, presentations, and webinars.</li> </ul>
 New chapters are included on specifying data requirements, writing high-quality functional requirements, and requirements reuse. Considerable depth has been added on business requirements, elicitation techniques, and nonfunctional requirements. In addition, new chapters recommend effective requirements practices for various special project situations, including enhancement and replacement, packaged solutions, outsourced, business process automation, analytics and reporting, and embedded and other real-time systems projects.

Software Requirements (Developer Best Practices)

Wiegers, Karl

Computer Science

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