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Requirements Management Using IBM® Rational® RequisitePro®

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My firm recently began using ReqPro, but despite training sessions and "cheat sheets", many of us were still floundering. I looked for training materials on the IBM web site, but they were all too expensive, so I had to find an alternate source.

I found this book and decided to try it out. It has proved to be one of the best IT BA-related how-to books I've read (and I've read most of them). Not only does it provide clear, lucid instructions on how to use ReqPro, it gives concrete and valuable insight for organizing a large Requirements project. As a result of my own experiences, I recommended that all the BA's in my group be given a copy. It has received excellent reviews from them, as well.

Finally, while it is mainly a book about how to use ReqPro to manage RM, it also provides valuable insight to the generic RM process, that is useful even if you don't use the expensive IBM tool.

Whether you are a novice or experienced user of the RequisitePro tool this book is an excellent reference guide. The book provides instruction not only on the tool itself, but provides excellent guidance on lean techniques such as identifying what is a "good" requirement and iteration planning.

I used this book on a regular basis.

NOT ABOUT RUP. The other reviewer must have pasted his review from another book. This book covers RequisitePro and is a good reference if you are planning to implement ReqPro or have only received a limited amount of support materials or training from IBM. Includes lots of screenshots, diagrams, and tables.

DOES NOT cover how to document requirements correctly.

SAP devotes its software to running manufacturing processes and the like. In contrast, this book shows how IBM's Rational software is used to manage software development itself. It marries documents written in Microsoft Word with a backend database. The intent is to make seamless the transition between usages of both types of data.

The code provides a framework within which you can apply the Rational Unified Process. A somewhat heavyweight development approach. But one which has claimed many adherents in the software industry. So you can read this book as an explanation of RUP itself, along with an elaborate development environment for it.

One measure of how heavyweight RUP is can be this book, and its description of the RequisitePro package. Exceedingly detailed.