- Hardcover: 280 pages
- Publisher: Artech House (30 Nov 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1580532667
- ISBN-13: 978-1580532662
- Product Dimensions: 25.9 x 18.2 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 917,364 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A concise and thorough handbook on requirements analysis, this book is a desk guide for your systems or software development work. It enables you to identify the real customer requirements for your projects and control changes and additions to these requirements. The book helps you understand the importance of requirements, leverage effective requirements practices, and better utilize resources. You also learn how to strengthen interpersonal relationships and communications, which are major contributors to project effectiveness. Moreover, this reference identifies and describes the roles, desired skills and characteristics of the effective requirements analyst, and includes examples and checklists to help you implement best practices. It goes on to describe what comprises an integrated quality approach on a project or in an organization and explains how to achieve it. The book concludes with a vision for the field of requirements engineering and provides case studies that draw on actual experience.
About the Author
Ralph R. Young is director of engineering process improvement at Northrop Grumman Information Technology Defense Enterprise Solutions. He holds a M.A. in economics and a Ph.D. in business administration from the George Washington University.
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This review is from: The Requirements Engineering Handbook (Artech House Technology Management and Professional Developm) (Hardcover)
This book is exactly what Ralph says (pXV): "a concise but thorough ready reference for Requirements Analysts (RA)". Every sentence provides sound advice and radiates Ralph's vast experience with the subject. I advise Requirements Analysts to read it through and then to read pieces of it again during the ongoing RA activities. Use it as a checklist before starting an activity, and when analyzing why a certain activity went wrong, to see how you can improve, and went (accidentally) right, to see how you can improve even further.
Ralph considers Performance Requirements and other "ilities" beyond the scope of this book (p53). This is unfortunate, because I think these types of Requirements are about the most important, and some more elaboration on how to handle and describe them would have been desirable. However, there are more subjects that he just gives pointers to and I agree with his statement (p97) that the RA should develop a working knowledge of many of the books referred to: "It is not sufficient to have a cursory knowledge of all of the requirements-related processes, practices, methods, techniques and tools. In order to be effective in his or her role, the RA must be able to recommend (and use) a good, proven approach and to facilitate deploying, implementing, and institutionalizing it". This handbook gives the RA a good start.
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4.4 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews) 16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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Practical desktop reference guide for Requirements Analysts,
By D. Smith - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Requirements Engineering Handbook (Artech House Technology Management and Professional Developm) (Hardcover)
I was eager to get a copy of this follow-up to Dr Young's "Effective Requirements Practices" (ERP) because ERP is one of my favourite requirements books -- and on first review, its sibling looks to be an excellent companion volume. Where ERP laid out 10 key requirements practices and focused on *what* to do, the Requirements Engineering Handbook (REH) covers *how* to do it -- the process, tools, and techniques to help identify what Dr Young calls "REAL" requirements.The REH discusses the roles, skills, and characteristics a Requirements Analyst (RA) needs to be effective. It defines over 20 types of requirements, and tells you how to gather and manage them. Like Steve McConnell does in his excellent project management books, Ralph Young sets all of this in a context that helps if you're using the CMMI, but doesn't require it. He also adds case studies and sidebar commentaries from both luminaries and run-of-the mill RAs (which helped convince me I could really do this stuff on my project!) Like ERP, REH is extensively footnoted, with a very complete and current set of references & URLs that makes it essentially an index into the requirements body of knowledge. This Handbook is concise (215 pp, plus glossary & 10 pg bibliography), so when looking for references, it's sometimes even faster than Google, because you get several footnotes that summarize the most appropriate literature, and help you get directly to relevant additional sources. You don't get a CD like ERP had, but many of the techniques reference templates or guides that can be freely downloaded from the author's website. It's an easy read, and nicely laid out so you can find things when thumbing through. Good Stuff! 15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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The Complete Requirements Engineering Book,
By Terry Bartholomew "Requirements Analyst" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Requirements Engineering Handbook (Artech House Technology Management and Professional Developm) (Hardcover)
Too often the requirements effort on a project is driven by the current fad in software development without putting a sound foundation in place. Dr. Young's book is about building that foundation, a requirements engineering foundation built on sound engineering principles. As a requirements practitioner, I have many books on requirements engineering. Most of them are limited to specific tools, techniques, and the prejudices of their authors and most contain only a few chapters that are really useful. However, each chapter in the Requirements Engineering Handbook contains a wealth of information on what a successful requirements program looks like. There are chapters that discuss the skills that a requirements analyst should have such as general skills useful to the analyst (or any engineer for that matter) and specialty skills such as modeling, inspections, and process improvement. There are chapters that discuss building the requirements program such as descriptions of the industry best practices for a sound requirements program and how quality improvement principles can be integrated with the requirements engineering processes. There are chapters that discuss the qualities of the requirements themselves such as descriptions of the requirement types and best of all guidance of how you can use these descriptions to ensure complete understanding of customer needs and expectations. Each of the requirements books I own provides some useful information in a particular situation, but Dr. Young's Requirements Engineering Handbook is the only complete program building book on requirements engineering that I have seen. If I were charged with starting a new Requirements Engineering program somewhere and could take only one book with me; it would be The Requirements Engineering Handbook by Ralph R. Young. 13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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Don't Re-invent the Wheel,
By Randi Deweese "Randi" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Requirements Engineering Handbook (Artech House Technology Management and Professional Developm) (Hardcover)
This concisely written and easy to understand handbook seems designed to save project managers and requirements analysts scores of man hours and succeeds brillantly. Need to write a position description for your Requirements Manager - its in there. Need to define the milestones for your Requirements Team - its in there. Need to share with your boss case studies of what happens if your project does NOT implement a specific requirements processes - its in there. My ROI for this handbook has been 3:1. For every hour have I spent reading, I save at least 3 hours as I write job descriptions, GANTT charts, etc. I could reproduce some of the information in the handbook based on my 20 years of project experience, but not as well and not nearly as fast. I recommend this handbook to Project or Requirements Managers who need to plan for and implement a successful requirement phase in record time. Good luck! |
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