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Software Requirements (Developer Best Practices) 3rd Edition

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Now in its third edition, this classic guide to software requirements engineering has been fully updated with new topics, examples, and guidance. Two leaders in the requirements community have teamed up to deliver a contemporary set of practices covering the full range of requirements development and management activities on software projects.

Describes practical, effective, field-tested techniques for managing the requirements engineering process from end to end.
Provides examples demonstrating how requirements "good practices" can lead to fewer change requests, higher customer satisfaction, and lower development costs.
Fully updated with contemporary examples and many new practices and techniques.
Describes how to apply effective requirements practices to agile projects and numerous other special project situations.
Targeted to business analysts, developers, project managers, and other software project stakeholders who have a general understanding of the software development process.
Shares the insights gleaned from the authors’ extensive experience delivering hundreds of software-requirements training courses, presentations, and webinars.

New chapters are included on specifying data requirements, writing high-quality functional requirements, and requirements reuse. Considerable depth has been added on business requirements, elicitation techniques, and nonfunctional requirements. In addition, new chapters recommend effective requirements practices for various special project situations, including enhancement and replacement, packaged solutions, outsourced, business process automation, analytics and reporting, and embedded and other real-time systems projects.

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Benefits This Book Provides

Of all the software process improvements you could undertake, improved requirements practices are among the most beneficial.

Our objective is to help you improve the processes you use for eliciting and analyzing requirements, writing and validating requirements specifications, and managing the requirements throughout the software product development cycle. The techniques we describe are pragmatic and realistic. Both of us have used these very techniques many times, and we always get good results when we do.

Who Should Read This Book

Business analysts or requirements engineers on a development project.

The technical team members who are creating and reviewing effective requirements.

Marketers and product managers specifying the features and attributes.

Project managers planning and tracking the project’s requirements activities and deal with requirements changes.

Includes practical, proven techniques that can help you to

Write high-quality requirements from the outset of a project
Deliver high-quality information systems and commercial products
Manage scope creep and requirements changes
Satisfy customers with the products they want
Reduce maintenance, enhancement, and support costs

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"From the first edition in 1999 through each successive edition, the guidance that Software Requirements provides has been the foundation of my requirements consulting practice. To beginning and experienced practitioners alike, I cannot recommend this book highly enough."
--Roxanne Miller, President, Requirements Quest

"This new edition keeps pace with the speed of business, both in deepening the foundation of the second edition and in bringing analysts down-to-earth how-to's for addressing the surge in agile development, using features to control scope, improving elicitation techniques, and expanding modeling."
--Keith Ellis, President and CEO, Enfocus Solutions Inc.

"I especially like the latest topic on how to apply effective requirements practices to agile projects. The practical guide and real examples of the many different requirement practices are invaluable."
--Doreen Evans, Robbins Gioia Inc.

"The best book on requirements just got better! The third edition's range of new topics expands the project circumstances it covers. Using requirements in agile environments is perhaps the most significant, because everyone involved still needs to understand what a new system must do--and agile developers are now an audience who ought to have a good grasp of what's in this book."
--Stephen Withall, author of Software Requirement Patterns

"The third edition of Software Requirements is finally available--and it was worth waiting so long. Full of practical guidance, it helps readers identify many useful practices for their work. I particularly enjoy the examples and many hands-on solutions that can be easily implemented in real-life scenarios. A must-read, not only for requirements engineers and analysts but also for project managers."
--Dr. Christof Ebert, Managing Director, Vector Consulting Services

"Karl and Joy have updated one of the seminal works on software requirements. Irrespective of the technology, business domain, methodology, or project type you are working in, this book will help you deliver better outcomes for your customers."
--Shane Hastie, Chief Knowledge Engineer, Software Education

"This usable and readable text walks you through exactly how to approach common requirements-related scenarios. The incorporation of multiple stories, case studies, anecdotes, and examples keeps it engaging to read."
--Laura Brandenburg, Host at Bridging the Gap

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Improve the way your teams:
* Identify and collaborate with key stakeholders
* Elicit and analyze requirements, with a focus on business objectives
* Document, prioritize, validate, and reuse requirements
* Prototype and create visual models of requirements
* Manage change requests, scope creep, and other project risks
* Understand and specify customer quality expectations

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Microsoft Press; 3rd edition (August 15, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 672 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0735679665
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0735679665
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.42 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 1.31 x 8.9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #390,783 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #432 in Microsoft Programming (Books)
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Joy Beatty is a Vice President at Seilevel. Joy drives creation and implementation of new methodologies and best practices that improve requirements elicitation and modeling. She assists Fortune 500 companies as they build business analysis centers of excellence. Joy has provided training to thousands of business analysts. She is a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®).
Joy is actively involved as a leader in the requirements community, serving on boards of multiple industry organizations. She is currently on the International Institute of Business Analysis® (IIBA®) core team for improving A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide). She has presented at numerous requirements-related conferences and speaking events. Additionally, she writes about requirements methodologies in journals, white papers, and blog posts. Joy graduated from Purdue University with Bachelors of Science degrees in both Computer Science and Mathematics.
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Karl Wiegers has provided training and consulting services worldwide on many aspects of software engineering. He has a PhD in organic chemistry. Karl is the author of 13 books and many articles on software development, product design, project management, self-help, chemistry, and military history, plus a forensic mystery novel titled "The Reconstruction."
Karl's latest book is "Software Requirements Essentials," coauthored with Candase Hokanson. This concise book describes 20 practices every software team should perform to understand the business problem, engage the right participants, articulate effective solutions, communicate information among stakeholders, implement the right functionality in the right sequence, and adapt to change. Each practice ends with several "Next Steps" to help you begin applying its content immediately.
When not at the keyboard, Karl enjoys reading military history, wine, playing guitar, and writing and recording music. Check out his songs --if you dare -- at karlwiegers.com.
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Easy to read, even easier to use

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2014

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What I love about this book is that it is so easy to pick this up, get several great ideas on how to fix whatever kind of problem you are facing in software development, and then use those ideas to implement something today that is really going to make a difference in what you can deliver to your customers. Wiegers and Beatty give pragmatic examples and "oops" stories on everything from Agile and analytics through real-time embedded systems that demonstrate the key points you need to know to make your project successful. The book also includes templates, tips, and project-specific details to help you use what you learn.

I have used the second edition of this book to help me work with software teams on problems ranging from reducing defects and increasing consulting revenue through implementing industry-standard requirements such as PCI. The third edition of the book builds on the second by increasing its coverage on topics such as dashboard reporting, data requirements, and data modeling. The book is meant to be read cover-to-cover but you can still get a lot out of it by reading what you need, as you need it.

My favorite section in this third edition is the expanded discussion on quality attributes. This is an area that is so often overlooked in software development because we tend to assume the best and forget to plan for the worst. This section explains the different types of quality controls and how to know which ones to use based on the type of project you are working on. The authors do a great job throughout the book in explaining how to gracefully handle software errors to keep your data, users, and possibly your customers safe from harm.

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The survival guide for earnest IT Business Analysts

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Although The Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (a.k.a BABoK) is now considered the bible of the business analysis worldwide, I can argue that Karl Wiegers’ “Software Requirements v3” should be dubbed as the survival guide for earnest IT Business Analysts. The BABoK has been written by different authors to be a comprehensive and horizontal framework on the subject, and I can say that its third version is much handy than the older one in terms of the logical soundness of the BA practice. However, Wiegers’ “Software Requirements” is the real practical and actionable book on “The Art of Requirements Engineering”. It is not a UML course or how-to, but rather a notation-agnostic complete trove of tips and advice that we need –as business analysts- to master in order to promote the BA profession beyond the mere current activities of hasty requirements collection and -then- mindless superficial dull documentation. Karl brought back deliberation and profoundness into this craft.

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Informative textbook

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2016

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This review is for the digital version of the book. I found this to be a very informative book. Coupled with a great instructor, the material was accessible and well-presented. Of particular note are the appendices, which contain sample documents and other helpful objects.

Some of the perks I enjoy from digital books are found here: ability to highlight and search different parts of the text are two I use frequently. The tradeoff is that the digital version lacks page numbers (which was sometimes difficult for assignments). To be clear, however, I prefer the digital version and the perks that come with this format over a version that retains the page numbers - you cannot highlight across pages in paginated digital books.

The material seemed pertinent and current as I compared it with other information found online or through other resources. I would recommend it if you are learning about the world of software requirements.

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Take the matter in your own hands

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2017

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Poor requirements is often cited as the number one cause of reduced quality and efficiency within an organization. This has also been my experience. Time to take the matter in your own hands. This is a solid book on requirements development and management that has helped navigate me and my team within a waterfall/iterative organization during our transition to more agile approaches. This book provides many tools and insightful data to help structure and model software requirements and, to some degree, software architectures. I would consider this a classic and would recommend it to anyone who wants to improve their business engineering skills.

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Jack Robertson

Excellent, practical, efficient

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2014

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There are many very good books about requirements. This book is in a hurry. It wastes no time. It is on a mission to bring you information you can immediately use. I have struggled with requirements, in writing them, and in improving them across the organization. This book gives the reader practical advice on finding, writing, and managing requirements for software projects. Other books I read, glean what I can, and put them away. This book I keep on hand, not as a prescriptive source, but as a guide, a mentor's view. This book will get the reader past thinking about requirements to managing them.

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I highly recommend buying, reading and adopting the many requirements engineering best practices

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2018

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I bought this book to help me understand the processes involved in software life-cycles. I would say this book ranks at the very top of my list of most important reads (along with a few others). Very informative for a person who is starting a business or attempting to develop larger applications.

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BA Must Have, Great Reference Book for writing software requirement

Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2019

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This book was a great purchase. Sometimes I get stuck writing requirements and this book has totally enhanced my software requirements. My manager and developers have noticed a difference in my requirements. My manager has also purchased this book based off my usage.

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T. Zimmermann

Great book, but beware of the Kindle edition

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2015

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The book content is great, 5 stars for that.
However, the Kindle edition is flawed for the following reasons:
* No table of content is available from the standard menu. This severely hampers navigation within the book.
* It is not visible which chapter you are currently reading.
* No reconciliation to page numbers from the printed book.

This is a text book, not a novel, so the lack of these features makes me sorry I did not buy the print edition.

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Beautiful book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2023

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Microsoft books are really good. This is no exception. Beautifully typeset and layed out, nice use of diagrams, call out boxes etc. The content is a great introduction to the subject, although I am no expert. This seems to be the only book I need for the subject until I become a high level architect.

Cristiano Colangelo

Great book on requirements engineering.

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Really great book! Super useful and readable.

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Best book on software requirements

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I find this book very useful to understand on how better to go through the whole lifecycle of software requirements

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Excelente libro para entender y aprender a tomar buenos requerimientos de modo que entregues resultados perfectos en cuanto a lo que el cliente esperaba, en tiempo y dentro del presupuesto.

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