Handbook of Requirements and Business Analysis

Meyer's Handbook of Requirements and Business Analysis is a comprehensive treatise providing the reader with all the principles and techniques necessary to produce effective requirements.

Even the best design, implementation and verification are worthless if they are the solution to the wrong problem. Defining the problem properly is the task of requirements, also known as business analysis. To be successful, a project must apply to requirements the same engineering standards as to other parts of system construction.

The Handbook presents a holistic view of requirements including four elements or PEGS: Project, Environment, Goals and System. One of its principal contributions is the definition of a Standard Plan for requirements documents, consisting of the four corresponding books and replacing the structure of the obsolete IEEE 1998 standard.

The text covers both classical requirements techniques and advanced topics. The successive chapters address: fundamental concepts and definitions; requirements principles; the Standard Plan for requirements; how to write good requirements; how to gather requirements; scenario techniques (use cases, user stories); object-oriented requirements; how to take advantage of formal methods; abstract data types; and the place of requirements in the software lifecycle.

The Handbook is suitable both as a practical guide for industry and as a textbook, with over 50 exercises and supplementary material available from the book's site, including slides and links to video lectures (MOOCs).

Meyer的《需求和業務分析手冊》是一本全面的著作，為讀者提供了產生有效需求所需的所有原則和技巧。

即使是最好的設計、實施和驗證，如果它們是錯誤問題的解決方案，那麼它們就毫無價值。正確定義問題是需求（也稱為業務分析）的任務。要取得成功，項目必須對需求應用與系統構建的其他部分相同的工程標準。

該手冊提供了對需求的整體觀點，包括四個元素或PEGS：項目、環境、目標和系統。其主要貢獻之一是定義了一個需求文件的標準計劃，包括四本相應的書籍，取代了過時的IEEE 1998標準的結構。

該文本涵蓋了傳統的需求技術和高級主題。連續的章節涵蓋了：基本概念和定義；需求原則；需求的標準計劃；如何撰寫良好的需求；如何收集需求；場景技術（用例、用戶故事）；面向對象的需求；如何利用形式化方法；抽象數據類型；以及需求在軟件生命週期中的位置。

該手冊既適用於業界的實用指南，也適用於教材，包括50多個練習題和從該書的網站提供的補充材料，包括幻燈片和視頻講座的鏈接（MOOCs）。

Bertrand Meyer is one of the pioneers of object technology and invented the concept of Design by Contract. His previous books include Agile! The Good, the Hype and the Ugly (Springer), a tutorial and critique of agile methods; Touch of Class (Springer), an introduction to modern programming; Eiffel: The Language; and Object-Oriented Software Construction, one of the all-time most cited publications in computer science.

Bertrand Meyer 是物件技術的先驅之一，並發明了「契約設計」的概念。他之前的著作包括《敏捷！好的、炒作的和醜陋的》（Springer），一本對敏捷方法進行教學和評論的書籍；《一點點高級》（Springer），一本介紹現代編程的書籍；《Eiffel：語言》；以及《物件導向軟體建構》（Object-Oriented Software Construction），這是計算機科學領域中被引用次數最多的著作之一。