Software Requirements 2

Without formal, verifiable software requirements?and an effective system for managing them?the programs that developers think they’ve agreed to build often will not be the same products their customers are expecting. In SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS, Second Edition, requirements engineering authority Karl Wiegers amplifies the best practices presented in his original award-winning text?now a mainstay for anyone participating in the software development process.

In this book, you’ll discover effective techniques for managing the requirements engineering process all the way through the development cycle?including dozens of techniques to facilitate that all-important communication between users, developers, and management. This updated edition features new case examples, anecdotes culled from the author’s extensive consulting career, and specific Next Steps for putting the book’s process-improvement principles into practice. You’ll also find several new chapters, sample documents, and an incisive troubleshooting guide.

Discover how to:

• Set achievable expectations for functionality and quality


• NEW: Incorporate business rules into application development


• Employ use cases to discover user requirements


• Arrest creeping requirements and manage change requests


• NEW: Deal with requirements on maintenance, outsourced, and package solution projects


• Curb the impulse to ?gold-plate” your programs


• NEW: Grow effective requirements analysts


• Cut revisions?and costs?dramatically


• Produce better software!

No matter what kind of software you build, or what your role in the development process, SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS, Second Edition, delivers expert guidance and field-tested techniques for engineering software success.

Price: $39.99

Click here to buy from Amazon

The Software Requirements

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.

• Describes practical, effective, field-tested techniques for managing the requirements engineering process from end to end.


• Provides examples demonstrating how requirements "good practices" can lead to fewer change requests, higher customer satisfaction, and lower development costs.


• Fully updated with contemporary examples and many new practices and techniques.


• Describes how to apply effective requirements practices to agile projects and numerous other special project situations.


• Targeted to business analysts, developers, project managers, and other software project stakeholders who have a general understanding of the software development process.


• Shares the insights gleaned from the authors’ extensive experience delivering hundreds of software-requirements training courses, presentations, and webinars.

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 reengineering, package solutions, outsourced, business process automation, analytics and reporting, and real-time and embedded systems projects.

Price: $44.99

Click here to buy from Amazon

Software Requirements 2

Without formal, verifiable software requirements?and an effective system for managing them?the programs that developers think they’ve agreed to build often will not be the same products their customers are expecting. In SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS, Second Edition, requirements engineering authority Karl Wiegers amplifies the best practices presented in his original award-winning text?now a mainstay for anyone participating in the software development process.

In this book, you’ll discover effective techniques for managing the requirements engineering process all the way through the development cycle?including dozens of techniques to facilitate that all-important communication between users, developers, and management. This updated edition features new case examples, anecdotes culled from the author’s extensive consulting career, and specific Next Steps for putting the book’s process-improvement principles into practice. You’ll also find several new chapters, sample documents, and an incisive troubleshooting guide.

Discover how to:

• Set achievable expectations for functionality and quality


• NEW: Incorporate business rules into application development


• Employ use cases to discover user requirements


• Arrest creeping requirements and manage change requests


• NEW: Deal with requirements on maintenance, outsourced, and package solution projects


• Curb the impulse to ?gold-plate” your programs


• NEW: Grow effective requirements analysts


• Cut revisions?and costs?dramatically


• Produce better software!

No matter what kind of software you build, or what your role in the development process, SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS, Second Edition, delivers expert guidance and field-tested techniques for engineering software success.

Price: $39.99

Click here to buy from Amazon

Software Requirements

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.

• Describes practical, effective, field-tested techniques for managing the requirements engineering process from end to end.


• Provides examples demonstrating how requirements "good practices" can lead to fewer change requests, higher customer satisfaction, and lower development costs.


• Fully updated with contemporary examples and many new practices and techniques.


• Describes how to apply effective requirements practices to agile projects and numerous other special project situations.


• Targeted to business analysts, developers, project managers, and other software project stakeholders who have a general understanding of the software development process.


• Shares the insights gleaned from the authors’ extensive experience delivering hundreds of software-requirements training courses, presentations, and webinars.

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 reengineering, package solutions, outsourced, business process automation, analytics and reporting, and real-time and embedded systems projects.

Price: $44.99

Click here to buy from Amazon