The Software Requirements Memory Jogger: A Pocket Guide to Help Software And Business Teams Develop And Manage Requirements (Memory Jogger) [Spiral-bound]

Ellen Gottesdiener (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 30, 2005 | Series: Memory Jogger

The Software Requirements Memory Jogger is an easy-to-use guide for developing and managing precise software requirements. The Software Requirements Memory Jogger provides every member of your project team with the tools and techniques to foster communication between business and technical teams on the necessary requirements for producing successful software. The Software Requirements Memory Jogger will benefit all stakeholders at any organizational level involved in software development projects management team, practitioners, QA/QC personnel. - Explore practical steps, tips, and examples to help you develop and manage requirements - Follow the User Requirements Roadmap a toolkit of techniques for discovering and analyzing user requirements - Streamline communications between all requirements stakeholders - Learn how to write clear, concise requirements documents

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About the Author

Ellen Gottesdiener is Principal Consultant and founder of EBG Consulting, Inc. Ellen has authored two books, numerous articles and contributed to several compilation books. She is a frequent speaker at national conferences and an industry advisor. Ellen develops all the training material used by EBG Consulting. Since 1991 Ellen has provided a broad range of services to EBG clients including consulting, mentoring, facilitation and training. Prior to founding EBG, Ellen spent 13 years as a manager, team leader, developer, and trainer with a major insurance and financial services organization. More on Ellen…

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 360 pages
• Publisher: Goal Q P C Inc; 1 edition (November 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576810607
• ISBN-13: 978-1576810606
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 4.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #214,725 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

EBG Consulting, Inc. (www.ebgconsulting.com) Principal Consultant and Founder Ellen Gottesdiener helps business and technical teams build a shared understanding of product needs so they deliver value at the right time. She is an internationally recognized facilitator, trainer, speaker and expert on requirements development, product chartering, retrospectives, and collaborative workshops. As an agile coach and trainer, Ellen has a passion for agile requirements, and works with large, complex products and help elicit just enough requirements to achieve iteration and product goals.

Author of two acclaimed books, Ellen delivers training, facilitation, and consulting services globally, speaks at industry conferences, writes articles and tweets, and is an IIBA (BABOK(tm)) expert reviewer and contributor. Her free eNewsletter "Success with Requirements" (sign up on at www.ebgconsulting.com) offers practical guidance and news, and EBG's website provides a variety of useful practitioner resources.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Requirements Material in a Compact Package, March 7, 2006

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Karl E. Wiegers (Clackamas, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Software Requirements Memory Jogger: A Pocket Guide to Help Software And Business Teams Develop And Manage Requirements (Memory Jogger) (Spiral-bound)

Ellen Gottesdiener's "Software Requirements Memory Jogger" contains an incredible wealth of clearly-presented requirements information in a small-format book. This inch-thick "pocket book" is easy to carry around and browse through when a busy requirements analyst has a few minutes to spare.

Ellen addresses all aspects of the requirements engineering process: elicitation, analysis, specification, validation, and management. Each chapter contains a wealth of practical techniques that can help any software team improve how it deals with requirements. Ellen describes a plethora of requirements "models," ways to represent different types of requirements-related information. Every technique is placed in a context so the reader can learn why to use it, what it does, and how to do it. The book presents scores of practical tips, based on Ellen's vast experience working with actual teams to develop requirements for software products.

This book is a handy guide that no requirements or business analyst should be without.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mandatory for all BAs and others interested in Rqmnts, June 16, 2006

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David M. Spann (Park City, UT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Software Requirements Memory Jogger: A Pocket Guide to Help Software And Business Teams Develop And Manage Requirements (Memory Jogger) (Spiral-bound)

We have a small boutique consulting group that helps companies be more agile and adaptive and were honored to receive one of the first copies of Software Requirments Memory Jogger. Recently, we sent two of our consultants on the road to help different clients work on gathering requirements and mapping business processes. The normal arguements about who had more air miles quickly switched to who was going to take our copy of Ellen's book with them as a resource. In fact, I'm now in the process of buying a copy for each of the consultants in the firm.

I recommend every Business Analyst, Process Analyst, Quality Assurance Analyst and Project Manager get a copy of this book. It provides the actual techniques that will make your life easier, your processes more documentable and your results more reliable. Buy two; one for you and for one of your most important stakeholders - or if you are like me, buy one for everyone in the office.

David Spann
Managing Partner
Agile Adaptive Management
Park City, UT
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Memory Jogger!!!, January 9, 2006

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Glenn Hamamura (Honolulu, Hawaii) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Software Requirements Memory Jogger: A Pocket Guide to Help Software And Business Teams Develop And Manage Requirements (Memory Jogger) (Spiral-bound)

The new Software Requirements Memory Jogger by Ellen Gottesdiener is a must for every business analyst and project manager who deals with requirements management -- and that's probably everyone.

Its compact format makes it a valuable reference to have available for a quick review, and its low cost makes it a good personal tool for every team member involved in requirements activities.

The book is logically organized into the major activities of requirements management: preparation (Ellen calls this 'setting the stage'), elicitation, analysis, specification, validation, and requirements management. Each major activity has a large number of applicable tools that create the appropriate outputs for that activity. Within the elicitation activity there are at least 10 tools, and each one is described in enough detail to provide a perspective for appropriateness in your own project situation. All the activities are detailed in this fashion, and the book also has examples and usage tips.

Ellen's chapter on project types, and considerations for requirements management based on these project types is valuable for project managers and analysts structuring their project plans' tasks related to the requirements phase.

This is a great contribution to the requirements management field, and should be in every project manager's library.