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Discovering Real Business Requirements for Software Project Success

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While a number of books on the market deal with software requirements, this is the first resource to offer you a methodology for discovering and testing the real business requirements that software products must meet in order to provide value. The book provides you with practical techniques that help prevent the main causes of requirements creep, which in turn enhances software development success and satisfaction among the organizations that apply these approaches. Complementing discovery methods, you also learn more than 21 ways to test business requirements from the perspectives of assessing suitability of form, identifying overlooked requirements, and evaluating substance and content.

Thepowerful techniques and methods presented are applied to a real business casefrom a company recognized for world-class excellence. You are introduced to theinnovative Problem Pyramidtm technique which helps you more reliably identifythe real problem and requirements content. From an examination of key methods for gathering and understandinginformation about requirements, to seven guidelines for documenting and communicatingrequirements, while avoiding analysis paralysis, this book is a comprehensive,single source for uncovering the real business requirements foryour software development projects. Contents: Introduction. Value ofTesting Up-Front. The Regular Way. Are They Requirements? Evaluating Requirements’Form. Discovering Real Requirements. Problem Pyramidtm. Applying theTechniques. Data Gathering. Formats for Analyzing Requirements. Key toCompleteness. Formats for Documenting Requirements. Finding OverlookedRequirements. Checking Requirements Accuracy and Completeness. Measuring Proofof the Pudding.RobinF. Goldsmith is President of Go Pro Management, Inc., a consultancy in Needham, MA.He has extensive information systems experience, having worked in this capacityfor the City of Cleveland, large financial institutions, and a “Big Four”management consulting firm. Mr. Goldsmith presents public and in-house seminarsand is a frequent speaker at leading leading software development andquality/testing conferences. He earned his LL.M. in taxation law at BostonUniversity, J.D. at Suffolk University, M.S. in psychology from PennsylvaniaState University, and A.B. in psychology from Kenyon College.



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