Discovering Real Business Requirements for Software Project Success

2004-01-01 Business & Economics

Author : Robin F. Goldsmith
Release : 2004-01-01
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 704/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Discovering Real Business Requirements for Software Project Success by : Robin F. Goldsmith

Download or read book Discovering Real Business Requirements for Software Project Success written by Robin F. Goldsmith. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While a number of books on the market deal with software requirements, this is the first resource to offer you a methodology for discovering and testing the real business requirements that software products must meet in order to provide value. The book provides you with practical techniques that help prevent the main causes of requirements creep, which in turn enhances software development success and satisfaction among the organizations that apply these approaches. Complementing discovery methods, you also learn more than 21 ways to test business requirements from the perspectives of assessing suitability of form, identifying overlooked requirements, and evaluating substance and content.

Discovering Real Business Requirements for Software Project Success

2004 Computers

Author : Robin F. Goldsmith
Release : 2004
Genre : Computers
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 711/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Discovering Real Business Requirements for Software Project Success by : Robin F. Goldsmith

Download or read book Discovering Real Business Requirements for Software Project Success written by Robin F. Goldsmith. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While a number of books on the market deal with software requirements, this is the first resource to offer you a methodology for discovering and testing the real business requirements that software products must meet in order to provide value. The book provides you with practical techniques that help prevent the main causes of requirements creep, which in turn enhances software development success and satisfaction among the organizations that apply these approaches. Complementing discovery methods, you also learn more than 21 ways to test business requirements from the perspectives of assessing suitability of form, identifying overlooked requirements, and evaluating substance and content. The powerful techniques and methods presented are applied to a real business case from a company recognized for world-class excellence. You are introduced to the innovative Problem Pyramidtm technique which helps you more reliably identify the real problem and requirements content. From an examination of key methods for gathering and understanding information about requirements, to seven guidelines for documenting and communicating requirements, while avoiding analysis paralysis, this book is a comprehensive, single source for uncovering the real business requirements for your software development projects.

Discovering Requirements

2009-02-11 Computers

Author : Ian F. Alexander
Release : 2009-02-11
Genre : Computers
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Book Rating : 255/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Discovering Requirements written by Ian F. Alexander. This book was released on 2009-02-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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!

Requirements-led Project Management

2005 Business & Economics

Author : Suzanne Robertson
Release : 2005
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book Requirements-led Project Management written by Suzanne Robertson. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Requirements are a crucial ingredient of any successful project. This is true for any product--software, hardware, consumer appliance, or large-scale construction. You have to understand its requirements--what is needed and desired--if you are to build the right product. Most developers recognize the truth in this statement, even if they don't always live up to it. Far less obvious, however, is the contribution that the requirements activity makes to project management. Requirements, along with other outputs from the requirements activity, are potent project management tools. In "Requirements-Led Project Management, " Suzanne and James Robertson show how to use requirements to manage the development lifecycle. They show program managers, product and project managers, team leaders, and business analysts specifically how to: Use requirements as input to project planning and decision-makingDetermine whether to invest in a projectDeliver more appropriate products with a quick cycle timeMeasure and estimate the requirements effortDefine the most effective requirements process for a projectManage stakeholder involvement and expectationsSet requirements prioritiesManage requirements across multiple domains and technologiesUse requirements to communicate across business and technological boundaries In their previous book, "Mastering the Requirements Process, " the Robertsons defined Volere--their groundbreaking and now widely adopted requirements process. In this second book, they look at the outputs from the requirements process and demonstrate how you can take advantage of the all-important links between requirements and project success.

Facilitating the Project Lifecycle

2005-08-05 Business & Economics

Author : Janet A. Means
Release : 2005-08-05
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 641/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Facilitating the Project Lifecycle by : Janet A. Means

Download or read book Facilitating the Project Lifecycle written by Janet A. Means. This book was released on 2005-08-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step by step, Facilitating the Project Lifecycle guides theproject manager/facilitator in making smart choices about when andhow to pull key talent together to spell success for the projectand ultimately the organization. The authors will help youunderstand the benefits of using facilitated group work sessions toget real work done during a project and get it done better and moreefficiently than more traditional individual work approaches. Inaddition, the book includes: Recommendations for capitalizing on group knowledge toaccelerate the building of key project deliverables and ensuretheir quality as they are built A work session structure for planning, delivering, andfollowing up facilitated work sessions Guides for building key project deliverables Sample agendas Proven techniques for managing the group dynamics

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