Software Requirements, Second Edition
By: Karl E. Wiegers
Published by: Addison-Wesley

This book describes several dozen practices that can help you gather, analyze, document, verify, and manage your software project requirements. The emphasis is on realistic practical methods and process improvement, not theoretical models. Business, user, functional, and nonfunctional requirements are all addressed. Topics covered include customer involvement in the requirements process, use cases, prototyping, requirements prioritization, the software requirements specification, change management, requirements traceability, requirements management tools, and managing requirements risks. The second edition features more depth on every topic, a comprehensive requirements troubleshooting guide, an integrated set of sample requirements documents, and new chapters on the role of the requirements analyst, defining and using business rules, and applying requirements engineering to maintenance projects, package solution projects, outsourced projects, and emergent projects.

Software Requirements Using the Unified Process
By: Daniel R. Windle, L. Rene Abreo
Published by: Paperback

Effective requirements development: An end-to-end process that works.

• How to build requirements that can easily be transformed into high-quality software
• Easy-to-apply, start-to-finish methodology based on the Unified Process
• Practical solutions for requirements gathering, analysis, specification, and maintenance

This book presents a systematic, easy-to-apply methodology for creating effective requirements. The authors present practical solutions for the full requirements lifecycle: gathering, analysis, specification, verification, and maintenance. Working in the context of the Unified Process, they cover process flows, present detailed diagrams, and offer insights that draw on their extraordinary mission-critical project experience, which ranges from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to the U.S. Air Force's most advanced Command and Control Systems.

• The key characteristics of good software requirements
• Understanding the requirements analysis process and artifacts
• Building user requirements problem domains, actors, use cases, activity diagrams, and storyboarding
• Building the requirements architecture entities and events, class diagrams, state transition diagrams, and sequence diagrams
• Building the specifications software requirements, interface requirements, and verification
• Using the requirements architecture you've built

Whether you're an analyst, architect, developer, tester, manager, or software customer, this book will help you define requirements that precisely reflect your needs—and can be transformed into working software faster and more cost-effectively than ever before.

Writing Effective Use Cases
By: Alistair Cockburn, Lois Fichner-Rathus

Leverage the full power of use cases in real-world software development!

• A practical methodology that makes use cases more accessible than ever before.
• Project standards, formats, style, and detailed "do's and don'ts" for creating use cases that work.
• Based on Cockburn's acclaimed tutorials at OOPSLA and Software Development Conferences!

Use cases have never been this easy to understand -- or this easy to create! In Writing Effective Use Cases, Alistair Cockburn offers a hands-on, soup-to-nuts guide to use case development, based on the proven concepts he has refined through years of research, development, and seminar presentations. Cockburn begins by answering the most basic questions facing anyone interested in use cases: "What does a use case look like? When do I write one?" Next, he introduces each key element of use cases: actors, stakeholders, design scope, goal levels, scenarios, and more. Writing Effective Use Cases contains detailed guidelines, formats, and project standards for creating use cases -- as well as a detailed chapter on style, containing specific do's and don'ts. Cockburn shows how use cases fit together with requirements gathering, business processing reengineering, and other key issues facing software professionals. The book includes practice exercises with solutions, as well as a detailed appendix on how to use these techniques with UML. For all application developers, object technology practitioners, software system designers, architects, and analysts.

Alistair Cockburn is Consulting Fellow at Humans and Technology, where he is responsible for helping clients succeed with object-oriented projects. He has more than 20 years experience leading hardware, software, and research projects for companies such as IBM, Ralston Purina, GE Capital Venture, and Traveler's Insurance.

Joint Application Development
By: Alistair Cockburn, Lois Fichner-Rathus

From two leading JAD innovators—everything you need to become a first-class JAD facilitator.

If you're an IS professional, you've probably heard quite a bit over the past few years about JAD's amazing track record in computer system design. But have you also heard that JAD techniques are now being used in companies worldwide to help facilitate everything from planning mergers to new product development? The demand has never been greater for first-class JAD facilitators and now this book helps you to become one. No dry academic treatise, this lively, hands-on guide bridges the gap between theory and practice with: Detailed, step-by-step guidance on running JAD workshops from start to finish—from project definition, research, preparation, and running sessions, to final documentation Dozens of useful agendas, checklists, sample documents, memos, visual aids, and more A gold mine of eye-opening "war stories" and helpful hints from facilitators across North America and Europe.

Completely updated and revised to reflect JAD's prominent new role in corporate decision-making, this Second Edition of the "JAD facilitator's bible" now features new and expanded coverage of how to:
Manage group dynamics, including handling difficult people, getting the timid ones to speak up, promoting creative thinking, and much more JAD psychology Integrate CASE tools, prototyping, and groupware into your JAD sessions Use JAD across and beyond the entire systems development life cycle Measure success, select pilot projects, and train facilitators Market your facilitating services within the company Apply JAD techniques to all types of corporate planning and decision-making