Discovering Requirements: How to Specify Products and Services (Paperback)

"This book is not only of practical value. It's also a lot of fun to read." Michael Jackson, The Open University.

Do you need to know how to create good requirements?

Discovering Requirements offers a set of simple, robust, and effective cognitive tools for building requirements. Using worked examples throughout the text, it shows you how to develop an understanding of any problem, leading to questions such as:

• What are you trying to achieve?
• Who is involved, and how?
• What do those people want? Do they agree?
• How do you envisage this working?
• What could go wrong?
• Why are you making these decisions? What are you assuming?

The established author team of Ian Alexander and Ljerka Beus-Dukic answer these and related questions, using a set of complementary techniques, including stakeholder analysis, goal modelling, context modelling, storytelling and scenario modelling, identifying risks and threats, describing rationales, defining terms in a project dictionary, and prioritizing.

This easy to read guide is full of carefully-checked tips and tricks. Illustrated with worked examples, checklists, summaries, keywords and exercises, this book will encourage you to move closer to the real problems you're trying to solve. Guest boxes from other experts give you additional hints for your projects.

Invaluable for anyone specifying requirements including IT practitioners, engineers, developers, business analysts, test engineers, configuration managers, quality engineers and project managers.
A practical sourcebook for lecturers as well as students studying software engineering who want to learn about requirements work in industry.

Once you've read this book you will be ready to create good requirements!

這本書不僅具有實用價值，閱讀起來也非常有趣。"The Open University"的Michael Jackson如此評價。

你需要知道如何創建良好的需求嗎？《發現需求》提供了一套簡單、堅固且有效的認知工具，用於建立需求。本書通過示例展示了如何對任何問題進行理解，引出以下問題：

- 你想要實現什麼目標？
- 有哪些相關人員參與，以及他們的角色是什麼？
- 這些人想要什麼？他們是否意見一致？
- 你如何設想這個系統運作？
- 有哪些可能出錯的地方？
- 為什麼要做出這些決策？你的假設是什麼？

作者Ian Alexander和Ljerka Beus-Dukic使用一系列互補的技術回答了這些問題，包括利益相關者分析、目標建模、情境建模、故事情節建模、風險和威脅識別、描述理據、在項目字典中定義術語以及優先排序。

這本易於閱讀的指南充滿了經過仔細檢查的技巧和訣竅。書中配有示例、檢查表、摘要、關鍵詞和練習題，鼓勵讀者更接近他們試圖解決的真實問題。其他專家的專欄為你的項目提供額外的提示。

對於包括IT從業人員、工程師、開發人員、業務分析師、測試工程師、配置管理員、質量工程師和項目經理在內的任何需求規範者來說，這本書都是無價之寶。對於講師以及學習軟體工程並希望了解業界需求工作的學生來說，這是一本實用的資料來源。

閱讀完這本書後，你將準備好創建良好的需求！