- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (8 Mar 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201709120
- ISBN-13: 978-0201709124
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 19 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 328,301 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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More than 25% of all software projects still fail outright -- costing organizations billions of dollars. One key reason: a failure to effectively define project requirements. In this book, leading enterprise software project manager Ralph Young brings together today's best techniques for gathering requirements, presenting solutions for every project role and stakeholder -- technical and business. Young demonstrates how to identify initial requirements, prioritize and specify requirements, iterate specifications to achieve greater clarity; identify the best ways each requirement can be met; and verify and validate requirements prior to coding. He offers proven techniques for establishing positive partnerships and effective communication with business managers, technical professionals, and software users; handling changes that occur during the course of a project; maintaining a project's momentum in the face of corporate politics and other obstacles; and much more. The book includes comprehensive templates that can be used to improve existing software requirements processes -- or to establish entirely new processes. For all project stakeholders: IT executives, project managers, software engineers, application developers, testers, quality specialists, integrators, even software consumers.
From the Back Cover
"Ralph Young has written an excellent guide for those who must understand and manage their customer's requirements. And that means just about everyone in the systems and software world." --Roger Pressman
Requirements analysis and management is finally receiving the attention it deserves as a key factor in the success of systems and software development projects.
And with this new attention comes a pragmatic guide to proven industry practices for emerging and fulfilling customer requirements. More than just an idealized view of the topic, Effective Requirements Practices addresses both managerial and technical issues that determine the success--or failure--of a project. The requirements practices described in this book enable you to redirect resources to satisfy customers' real business needs. Together, these practices provide a proven framework and process that help keep projects on the right track and ensure that requirements are addressed properly throughout a project's life cycle.
This book demonstrates proven methods and techniques. Topics covered include
- Strategies and methods for getting to the "real" customer requirements
- Developing and improving a requirements process
- The roles and responsibilities of the Joint Team for requirements elicitation
- Designing system requirements with the system architecture in mind
- Maintaining effective communication among team members
- Maintaining a set of work products
- Requirements verification and validation
- Accommodating changes in requirements throughout the project
- How the recommended requirements practices utilize the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) framework
- Achieving an environment of continuous improvement and mutual support of one another
Also provided is a sample process that has been used in industry and deployed and tailored on dozens of projects. In addition, Effective Requirements Practices offers you recommendations for incorporating industry best practices into the development effort.
You will come away from this book well equipped to better satisfy your customers' needs.
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This review is from: Effective Requirements Practices (Information Technology) (Paperback)
Effective Requirements Practices very well describes the contents of this book. It is clear that Ralph has experienced all the corners of the requirements process, over the full system life cycle. He packages his experience in very complete, clear and practical advice. Even if you have a lot of experience in software or systems engineering projects, you will probably still find a lot of helpful information. I wanted to write a book on Requirements Engineering myself. Reading Ralph's book made me understand that that's not needed any more. Use it as a cook book full of good and effective recipes: just follow his advice and your chances of project success are greatly increased.
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4.5 out of 5 stars (13 customer reviews) 18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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If you develop systems, keep this on your desk!,
By "smith_doug" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Effective Requirements Practices (Information Technology) (Paperback)
As a software engineer, I found Dr. Young's book to be practical and very useful. My project has been implementing six of his ten "Recommended Requirements Practices," and they have indeed proved to be effective, as advertised. The book is organized around the 10 requirements practices, but covers a very wide range of other issues that influence project success - including such diverse topics as project management, team partnering, process definition, and project communication. The book and accompanying CD are loaded with templates and examples; we've reused a couple of them to produce deliverables for our customers. The book doesn't have lots of "textbook" things like review problems and quizzes; it's much more focused on real-world implementation than some other requirements books (like the ones that are obviously the collected notes from some professor's undergraduate class). There is a glossary, and two good indexes (by author and by subject) that are accurate and at the right level of detail to make the book effective as a reference. The other thing that has kept this book on my ready-reference shelf is the annotated bibliographies - each chapter ends with a list of key references (mostly books and articles), with explanations of why they are significant, what they contain, and URLs for the ones that are available on the web. 20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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Guidance from a True Practioner,
By Ivy Hooks - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Effective Requirements Practices (Information Technology) (Paperback)
Dr. Ralph Young has produced a book from a practitioners standpoint. Dr. Young has spent many years working in the world of systems and software engineering and for the last ten years has put great emphasis on requirements. He has developed and refined a process for emerging the real requirements based on research and actual practice. The detailed process flows are those developed by a team of requirements specialists and used repeatedly by Litton PRC to achieve CMM Level 5. You may not be ready to step into all of this on day one, but you will have a road map to follow as you increase your organization's maturity level. Why start at ground level when you can stand on the shoulders of a proven process that is described in detail in this book? In addition to providing recommendations for best practices, Dr. Young gives the reader a nineteen page bibliography of almost everything written on the subject of requirements. This up-to-date list including many books from 2000, combined with Key References and Suggested Reading for each chapter, will give you the best cross-reference library you can find anywhere and he even provides this on a CD-ROM. 13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Great Overview of Best Ideas for Managing Requirements.,
By Tom Gilb - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Effective Requirements Practices (Information Technology) (Paperback)
This book is a rich up to date source of the best thinking and practicesregarding requirements. It is a systems engineering book, and is rich in the motivation/organization/process aspects of dealing with requirements throughout the life cycle. I especially appreciated the rich pointers to easily accessible websites for referenced material. The author has personal contact with the best people in the business, and has managed to collate their experience and advice with his own large scale experiences. This is not a book on specific methods for expressing requirements. It is a manager's book. When my son said "Dad I only want you to recommend the best of what you read", I handed him my copy. |
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