Requirements Engineering Handbook
Published on 1. January 2003
278 pages
978-1-58053-618-9 (ISBN)
Description
A concise and thorough handbook on requirements analysis, this invaluable book is the perfect desk guide for your systems or software development work. This first-of-its-kind handbook enables you to identify the real customer requirements for your projects and control changes and additions to these requirements. The books helps you understand the importance of requirements, leverage effective requirements practices, and better utilize resources. You also learn how to strengthen interpersonal relationships and communications which are major contributors to project effectiveness. Moreover, this unique reference identifies and describes the roles, desired skills and characteristics of the effective requirements analyst, and includes examples and checklists to help you implement best practices. It goes on to describe what comprises an integrated quality approach on a project or in an organization and explains how to achieve it. The book concludes with a vision for the field of requirements engineering and provides case studies that draw on actual experience.
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Ralph R. Young
The Requirements Engineering Handbook
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11/2003
Artech House Publishers
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. The Importance of Requirements
- What are Requirements and Why are They Important?
- Why Plan?
- A Suggested Strategy
- Requirements Activities in the System Life Cycle
- Investment in the Requirements Process
- A Process Approach
- The Requirements Plan
- Factors Affecting Your Career Decisions
- A Comment Concerning Small Projects
- Summary
- Case Study
- 2. The Roles of the RA
- Suggested Roles of the RA
- Summary
- Case Study
- 3. Skills and Characteristics of an Effective RA
- Skills of the RA
- Characteristics of an Effective RA
- Summary
- Case Study
- 4. Types of Requirements
- Views of Requirements Types
- Definitions and Descriptions of Requirements Types
- Terminologies to Avoid
- Examples of Requirements Types
- Summary
- Case Study
- 5. Gathering Requirements
- Plan the Approach
- Summary
- Case Study
- 6. Best Practices for Requirements Development and Management
- Summary
- Case Study
- 7. The RA's Specialty Skills
- Summary
- Case Study
- 8. An Integrated Quality Approach
- Business Drivers for Quality
- Management's Role
- Guiding Principles
- Priority Management
- The Components of an Integrated Quality Approach
- Quality Improvement Techniques
- The PDCA Cycle
- How to Design a Process
- Teamwork
- Summary
- Case Study: An Example of Quality Improvement Sidetracked
- 9. A Vision for Requirements Engineering
- How Should We Support PMs?
- How Should We Support Customers?
- How Should We Support Developers?
- Summary
- Case Study
- 10. Moving Forward: Knowable Requirements, Manageable Risk
- Where to Go from Here
- Moving Forward
- A Requirements Mandala
- Summary
- Case Study
- Glossary
- List of Acronyms
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- Index
