Author: Ellen Gottesdiener
Published by: Goal/QPC, 2005
ISBN 1576810607 (3.5" X 5.5" wiro-bound booklet)
Author: Ellen Gottesdiener
Published by: Goal/QPC, 2005
ISBN 1576810607 (3.5" X 5.5" wiro-bound booklet)
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Anyone who knows Ellen Gottesdiener's Requirements by Collaboration will immediately guess that this will be a fine introduction to the field. They won't be disappointed either. The diminutive format of the book, or 'booklet' as the publishers have it, looks unpromising from the outside, suggesting a sketchy industrial 'Spreadsheets for Dimwits' sort of approach. But the book's content is anything but that.
Gottesdiener has written a textbook covering the whole requirements process, including at the largest scale the kind of life-cycle to choose for your project, and at smaller scales how to gather, write, and review requirements. Somehow she has packed in a wealth of materials, suggestions, checklists and modelling techniques. The knowledge is encyclopaedic, the space small: like Dr Who's Tardis time-machine, it is much bigger on the inside than on the outside. It's extremely practical, too.
Most of the material is applicable to projects of all kinds, not only software.
The book should appeal to a wide audience, with or without requirements
experience. It is clearly aimed at people in the software industry but may well
be useful to students of software engineering as well.
© Ian
Alexander 2006
From the publisher:
"The Software Requirements Memory Jogger: A Pocket Guide to Help Software and Business Team Develop and Manage Requirements will be published by Goal/QPC in November, 2005. This concisely written book summarizes why it is important to define high-quality requirements and gives readers tools and techniques for developing and managing requirements.
The Jogger is a 3.5 × 5.5 wiro-bound booklet, which covers the essentials of requirements development and management—how to elicit, prioritize and document requirements; useful models to analysis requirements; ways to verify and validate requirements; techniques for adapting requirements practices; and how to manage requirements throughout the project. The book helps stakeholders—including analysts, project managers, and team facilitators, at all organizational levels— to learn and apply tools, methods and processes needed to attain high-quality software requirements. It should prove to be a valuable tool as a stand-alone resource, training reference book and handy performance support resource."