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Software Requirements Essentials: Core Practices for Successful Business Analysis de Karl Wiegers

Software Requirements Essentials: Core Practices for Successful Business Analysis

Autor Karl Wiegers, Candase Hokanson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mar 2023

Cititorul care a aplicat deja metodologiile detaliate în Software Requirements de Karl Wiegers va găsi în acest nou volum o rafinare esențială, adaptată ritmului de lucru contemporan. Putem afirma că Software Requirements Essentials: Core Practices for Successful Business Analysis nu este doar o completare, ci o distilare a deceniilor de experiență, eliminând redundanțele teoretice în favoarea unor tehnici aplicabile imediat. Față de abordarea academică din Handbook of Requirements and Business Analysis de Bertrand Meyer, lucrarea de față se concentrează pe pragmatism, oferind acele „20 de nestemate” care asigură succesul unui proiect indiferent de domeniul de aplicare. Suntem de părere că forța acestui text rezidă în structura sa extrem de riguroasă. Cartea progresează logic, începând cu așezarea fundației (înțelegerea problemei înainte de soluție și definirea limitelor acesteia), continuând cu procesul de elicitare și terminând cu managementul schimbării. Subliniem faptul că autorii nu se limitează la scrierea de cerințe, ci analizează ecosistemul decizional, insistând pe identificarea corectă a stakeholderilor și a factorilor de decizie împuterniciți. Spre deosebire de alte lucrări anterioare ale lui Karl Wiegers, precum Pearls from Sand, care explorau observații de viață mai generale, acest volum revine ferm în sfera tehnică, oferind un ghid de bune practici pentru ingineria cerințelor. Fiecare capitol este calibrat pentru a oferi suficient detaliu „how-to” fără a deveni copleșitor. De la evaluarea relațiilor dintre date până la prioritizarea funcționalităților în secvențe de implementare valoroase, textul funcționează ca un manual de teren. Este o resursă care facilitează comunicarea între analiștii de business, product owneri și dezvoltatori, construind un limbaj comun indispensabil în orice echipă de software development.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780138190286
ISBN-10: 0138190283
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 178 x 235 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:1. Auflage
Editura: Pearson International

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte profesioniștilor din IT care doresc să evite eșecul proiectelor cauzat de cerințe ambigue. Cititorul câștigă acces la o metodologie verificată de analiză de business, învățând cum să identifice nevoile reale ale utilizatorilor și cum să documenteze specificațiile într-un mod structurat. Este un ghid practic, ideal pentru echipele care vor să livreze valoare rapid, fără a sacrifica rigoarea analitică.

Despre autor

Karl Wiegers este un lider recunoscut la nivel mondial în domeniul ingineriei cerințelor și al proceselor de calitate software, fiind autorul a numeroase cărți de referință care au format generații de analiști. Candase Hokanson este un practician experimentat și consultant în business analysis, specializată în adaptarea tehnicilor de management al cerințelor pentru mediile agile. Împreună, cei doi autori combină rigoarea academică a lui Wiegers cu experiența practică a lui Hokanson în proiecte complexe, oferind în Software Requirements Essentials: Core Practices for Successful Business Analysis o perspectivă modernă și echilibrată asupra dezvoltării de software.

Notă biografică

Karl Wiegers is Principal Consultant with Process Impact, a software development consulting and training company in Happy Valley, Oregon. Previously, he spent eighteen years at Kodak, where he held positions as a photographic research scientist, software developer, software manager, and software process and quality improvement leader. Karl received a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois. Karl is the author of thirteen previous books and has written many articles on software development, management, design, consulting, chemistry, and military history. Karl has served on the editorial board for IEEE Software magazine and as a contributing editor for Software Development magazine. He is the author of Software Development Pearls (Addison-Wesley, 2022).
Candase Hokanson is a Business Architect and PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner at ArgonDigital, a software development, professional services, and training company based in Austin, Texas. Candase graduated from Rice University with a BS and MS in civil engineering and a BA in religious studies. She is an active member of the product and business analysis communities, previously serving as a co-chair for the Keep Austin Agile conference in 2019 and president of the Austin IIBA. She has authored multiple articles on using visual models in agile, requirements in agile, and agile in the large enterprise.

Cuprins

Foreword xvii Acknowledgments xix About the Authors xxi
Chapter 1: Essentials of Software Requirements 1 Requirements Defined 2 Good Practices for Requirements Engineering 5 Who Does All This Stuff? 8 Some Recurrent Themes 9 The Life and Times of Requirements 11 Getting Started 11
Chapter 2: Laying the Foundation 13 Practice #1: Understand the problem before converging on a solution 14 Practice #2: Define business objectives 19 Practice #3: Define the solution's boundaries 26 Practice #4: Identify and characterize stakeholders 33 Practice #5: Identify empowered decision makers 39
Chapter 3: Requirements Elicitation 45 Practice #6: Understand what users need to do with the solution 47 Practice #7: Identify events and responses 53 Practice #8: Assess data concepts and relationships 59 Practice #9: Elicit and evaluate quality attributes 67
Chapter 4: Requirements Analysis 75 Practice #10: Analyze requirements and requirement sets 76 Practice #11: Create requirements models 84 Practice #12: Create and evaluate prototypes 91 Practice #13: Prioritize the requirements 97
Chapter 5: Requirements Specification 107 Practice #14: Write requirements in consistent ways 109 Practice #15: Organize requirements in a structured fashion 115 Practice #16: Identify and document business rules 121 Practice #17: Create a glossary 127
Chapter 6: Requirements Validation 131 Practice #18: Review and test the requirements 132
Chapter 7: Requirements Management 141 Practice #19: Establish and manage requirements baselines 142 Practice #20: Manage changes to requirements effectively 149
Appendix: Summary of Practices 157
References 159 Index 165

Descriere scurtă

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 for 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 rationales--and work together more effectively on every project.
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, and 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
"Diamonds come about when a huge amount of carbon atoms are compressed. Karl and Candase have done something very similar: they have compressed their vast requirements knowledge into 20 gems they call 'core practices.' These practices are potent stuff, and I recommend that they become part of everyone's requirements arsenal." --James Robertson, author of Mastering the Requirements Process and Business Analysis Agility
"Long story short: if you are going to read only one requirements book, this is it. Software Requirements Essentials distills the wealth of information found in Software Requirements and many other texts down to twenty of the most important requirements activities that apply on nearly all projects. Today's busy BA simply doesn't have the time to read a lengthy instructive guide front-to-back. But they should find the time to read this book." --From the Foreword by Joy Beatty, COO, ArgonDigital
"Software Requirements Essentials will be a high-value addition to your business analysis library. Anyone looking to improve their business analysis practices will find great practical advice they'll be able to apply immediately." --Laura Paton, Principal Consultant, BA Academy, Inc.
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