Now in its third edition, this classic guide to software requirements engineering has been fully updated with new topics, examples, and guidance. Two leaders in the requirements community have teamed up to deliver a contemporary set of practices covering the full range of requirements development and management activities on software projects. New chapters are included on specifying data requirements, writing high-quality functional requirements, and requirements reuse. Considerable depth has been added on business requirements, elicitation techniques and nonfunctional requirements.

About the Author

Karl E. Wiegers is Principal Consultant with Process Impact, a software process consulting and education company based in Portland, Oregon. Previously, he spent 18 years at Eastman Kodak Company, where he held positions as a photographic research scientist, software developer, software manager, and software process and quality improvement leader. He led process improvement activities for small teams, for a division of 500 software engineers building Kodak's digital imaging products, and for the Kodak Internet development group. Joy Beatty, a leader in the software requirements community, has trained thousands of business analysts and helped major organizations build business-analysis centers of excellence. She is coauthor of Visual Models for Software Requirements.

Table of Contents:
· The essential software requirement · Requirements from the customer’s perspective · Good practices for requirements engineering · The business analyst · Establishing the business requirements · Finding the voice of the user · Requirements elicitation · Understanding user requirements · Playing by the rules · Documenting the requirements · Writing excellent requirements · A picture is worth 1024 words · Specifying data requirements · Beyond functionality · Risk reduction through prototyping · First things first: Setting requirement priorities · Validating the requirements · Requirements reuse · Beyond requirements development · Agile projects · Enhancement and replacement projects · Packaged solution projects · Outsourced projects · Business process automation projects · Business analytics projects · Embedded and other real-time systems projects · Requirements management practices · Change happens · Links in the requirements chain · Tools for requirements engineering · Improving your requirements processes · Software requirements and risk management