Book Reviews on
Requirements & System Development
Requirements, Business Analysis, Systems & Software
Engineering, Product and Project Management, Agile Software
Development, Use Cases, User Interaction and more...
Book Reviews: Requirements
Discovery
Requirements Training Discovering Requirements Training Course
| Author | Title (favourites) | Date | Mainly For |
| Alexander & Beus-Dukic | Discovering Requirements Training Course | 2009 | Industry, Business, Students |
| Alexander & Stevens | Writing Better Requirements | 2002 | Industry, Business |
| Robin Goldsmith | Discovering Real Business Requirements | 2004 | Industry, Business |
| Ellen Gottesdiener | Requirements by Collaboration | 2002 | Industry, Business |
| Anna Hart |
Knowledge Acquisition | 1989 | Industry, Business |
| Hossenlopp & Hass | Unearthing Business Requirements | 2007 | Business |
| Alison Kidd |
Knowledge Acquisition | 1989 | Ideas |
| Gerry Weinberg |
Exploring Requirements
| 1989 | Ideas |
Book Reviews: Requirements
Management
Requirements Training Introduction to Requirements Training Course
Book Reviews: Analysis
Requirements Training Introduction to Requirements Training Course Discovering Requirements Training Course
| Author | Title (favourites) | Date | Mainly For |
| David Hay | Requirements Analysis (Zachman Framework) | 2002 | Business |
| Kilov & Baclawski | Business System Specifications | 2003 | Research |
| Frappier & Habrias | Software Specification Methods | 2001 | Research |
| Axel van Lamsweerde | Requirements Engineering | 2009 | Students |
| Lavi & Kudish | Systems Modeling & Requirements Specification using ECSAM | 2005 | Industry, Business |
| Leszek Maciaszek | Requirements Analysis & System Design | 2004 | Students |
Book Reviews: Agile Methods,
Participative Development
| Author | Title (favourites) | Date | Mainly For |
| Kent Beck |
Extreme Programming
| 1999 | Industry, Business |
| Beyer & Holtzblatt |
Contextual Design
| 1998 | Industry, Business |
| David Bohm |
On Dialogue
| 1996 | Ideas |
| Peter Checkland |
Soft Systems Methodology in action
| 1990 | Ideas |
| Peter Checkland |
Systems Thinking, Systems Practice | 1981 | Ideas |
| Alistair Cockburn | Agile Software Development | 2002 | Industry, Business |
| Mike Cohn | User Stories Applied | 2004 | Industry, Business |
| Uwe Flick | Qualitative Research | 1998 | Research |
| Ellen Gottesdiener | Requirements by Collaboration | 2002 | Industry, Business |
| Ian Graham | RE and Rapid Development | 1998 | Industry, Business |
| John Heron |
Co-operative Inquiry
| 1996 | Ideas |
| Peter Reason | Handbook of Action Research | 2001 | Research |
| Donald Schön |
Reflective Practitioner
| 1983 | Ideas |
Book Reviews: Communicating, Writing, Graphics
| Author | Title (favourites) | Date | Mainly For |
| Chris Alexander |
Notes on the Synthesis of Form | 1964 | Ideas |
| Sven Birkerts |
Gutenberg Elegies | 1994 | Ideas |
| Tony Buzan | The Mind Map Book | 2006 | Industry, Business |
| David Lewis | How to Get Your Message Across | 1997 | Ideas |
| Marshall McLuhan |
The
Medium is the Massage | 1967 | Ideas |
| Nicholas B. Oulton | Killer Presentations (PowerPoint) | 2007 | Industry, Business |
| Edward Tufte | Visual Explanations | 1997 | Ideas |
| Edward Tufte | Envisioning Information | 1990 | Ideas |
| Edward Tufte |
Visual Display of Quantitative Information | 2001 | Ideas |
| Gerald Weinberg | Weinberg on Writing | 2006 | Industry, Business |
Book Reviews:
History & Philosophy of Science
| Author | Title (favourites) | Date | Mainly For |
| Paul Feyerabend |
Against Method | 1975 | Ideas |
| Thomas Kuhn |
Structure of Scientific Revolutions | 1962 | Ideas |
| Michael Polanyi |
Tacit Dimension | 1966 | Ideas |
| Karl Popper |
Logic of Scientific Discovery | 1959 | Ideas |
| Stephen Toulmin |
The Uses of Argument | 1958 | Ideas |
| Walter Vincenti |
What Engineers Know and How They Know It | 1990 | Ideas |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Philosophical Investigations | 1953 | Ideas |
Book Reviews:
Human Factors, User Interface
| Author | Title (favourites) | Date | Mainly For |
| John Carroll | Making Use | 2000 | Ideas |
| Andy Crabtree | Designing Collaborative Systems (Ethnography) | 2003 | Ideas |
| Alan Dix et al | Human Computer Interaction | 2003 | Industry, Business |
| Mike Kuniavsky | Observing the User Experience | 2003 | Industry, Business |
| Søren Lauesen | User Interface Design | 2004 | Industry, Business |
| McGraw & Harbison | User-Centered Requirements | 1997 | Industry, Business |
| Sandom & Harvey | Human Factors for Engineers | 2004 | Industry, Business |
| Shneiderman & Plaisant | Designing the User Interface | 2003 | Industry, Business |
| Alistair Sutcliffe | User-Centred Requirements Engineering | 2002 | Research |
| Harold Thimbleby | User Interface Design | 1990 | Industry, Business |
| Harold Thimbleby | Press On: Principles of Interaction Programming | 2007 | Industry, Students |
Book Reviews:
Mathematics, Statistics
| Author | Title (favourites) | Date | Mainly For |
| Calvin Dytham | Choosing and Using Statistics | 2003 | Research |
| Jan Gullberg |
Mathematics from Birth of Numbers | 2004 | Ideas |
| Katrina Maxwell | Statistics for Software Managers | 2002 | Industry, Business |
| Gyorgy Polya |
How to Solve It | 1945 | Ideas |
| Råde & Westergren | Mathematics Handbook | 2004 | Industry, Business |
Book Reviews: Product Management
| Author | Title (favourites) | Date | Mainly For |
| Alan Davis | Just Enough Requirements Management | 2005 | Industry, Business |
| Linda Gorchels |
The Product Manager's Handbook | 1995 | Industry, Business |
| Ivy Hooks | Customer-Centered Products | 2000 | Industry, Business |
| Rick Levine et al | Cluetrain Manifesto | 2000 | Industry, Business |
| Integrated Design and Engineering: as a Business Improvement Process | 2009 | Industry |
Book Reviews: Project Management
Training Courses: A Taste of Requirements Course Brochure
Book Reviews: Scenarios, Use Cases, User Stories
| Author | Title (favourites) | Date | Mainly For |
| Alexander & Maiden | Scenarios, Stories, Use Cases Training Course | 2004 | Industry, Business |
| John Carroll | Scenario-Based Design | 1995 | Industry, Business |
| Alistair Cockburn |
Writing Effective Use Cases
| 2001 | Industry, Business |
| Mike Cohn | User Stories Applied | 2004 | Industry, Business |
| David Harel | Come, Let's Play: Scenarios | 2003 | Research |
| Ivar Jacobson | Object-oriented Software Engineering | 1992 | Industry, Business |
| Kulak & Guiney | Use Cases: Requirements in Action | 2000 | Industry, Business |
| McGraw & Harbison | User-Centered Requirements | 1997 | Industry, Business |
| Ben Rinzler | Telling Stories: a Short Path to Writing Better Software Requirements | 2009 | Industry, Business |
| Roger Schank |
Tell Me A Story
| 1990 | Ideas |
Book Reviews:
Software Engineering
Software Engineering Training Requirements Training Course DOORS Training Course DXL Training Course
Book Reviews: Systems Engineering
Systems Engineering Training Systems Engineering Course Brochure
| Author | Title (favourites) | Date | Mainly For |
| Brian Berenbach | Software & Systems Requirements Engineering: In Practice | 2009 | Industry |
| Stephen Bungay | The Most Dangerous Enemy | 2000 | Ideas, Fun |
| Henry Dreyfuss |
Designing for People | 1955 | Industry, Business |
| Jon Holt | UML for Systems Engineering | 2001 | Industry, Business |
| Kirschner, Shum & Carr | Visualizing Argumentation | 2003 | Industry, Business |
| Lavi & Kudish | Systems Modeling & Requirements Specification using ECSAM | 2005 | Industry, Business |
| Maier & Rechtin | Art of Systems Architecting | 2000 | Industry, Business |
| Enid Mumford | Ethical Systems Design | 1996 | Ideas, Students |
| Andrea Prencipe et al | Business of Systems Integration | 2003 | Research |
| Eberhardt Rechtin |
Systems Architecting
| 1990 | Industry, Business |
| Herbert Simon |
Sciences of the Artificial
| 1996 | Ideas |
| Richard Stevens et al | Systems Engineering | 1998 | Industry, Business |
| Integrated Design and Engineering: as a Business Improvement Process | 2009 | Industry |
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