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Thorny Issues and Practical Advice

Karl E. Wiegers

202 pages, parution le 20/12/2005

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No matter how much instruction you've had on managing software requirements, there's no substitute for experience. Too often, lessons about requirements engineering processes lack the no-nonsense guidance that supports real-world solutions. Complementing the best practices presented in his book, Software Requirements, Second Edition, requirements engineering authority Karl Wiegers tackles even more of the real issues head-on in this book.

With straightforward, professional advice and practical solutions based on actual project experiences, this book answers many of the tough questions raised by industry professionals. From strategies for estimating and working with customers to the nuts and bolts of documenting requirements, this essential companion gives developers, analysts, and managers the cosmic truths that apply to virtually every software development project.

Discover how to:

Make the business case for investing in better requirements practices
Generate estimates using three specific techniques
Conduct inquiries to elicit meaningful business and user requirements
Clearly document project scope
Implement use cases, scenarios, and user stories effectively
Improve inspections and peer reviews
Write requirements that avoid ambiguity

L'auteur - Karl E. Wiegers

Karl E. Wiegers is Principal Consultant with Process Impact, a software process consulting and education company in Portland, Oregon. Previously, he spent 18 years at Eastman Kodak Company, where he held positions as a photographic research scientist (four years), a software applications developer (nine years), a software manager (three years), and a software process and quality improvement leader (five years). He has 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. His writing and teaching are based largely on his experience in improving development processes, technical practices, and quality practices in all these environments, as well as incorporating experiences drawn from his dozens of consulting clients. Karl has managed numerous small software development projects.
Karl received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Boise State College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois. He is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and ACM. He has served on the Editorial Board for IEEE Software magazine and as a Contributing Editor for Software Development magazine.
Karl is the author of three previous books, and he has written more than 150 articles on many aspects of software engineering and management, chemistry, and military history during the past 30 years. He is a frequent speaker at software conferences, public seminars, and professional society meetings. As an independent consultant, Karl presents training seminars and consulting engagements at companies worldwide on requirements engineering, software peer reviews, process improvement, risk management, and related topics. He has worked with more than 60 companies in many different industry sectors since 1997.

Sommaire

On Essential Requirements Concepts
On the Management View of Requirements
On Customer Interactions
On Use Cases
On Writing Requirements
On the Requirements Process
On Managing Requirements

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Éditeur(s)	Microsoft Press
Auteur(s)	Karl E. Wiegers
Parution	20/12/2005
Nb. de pages	202
Format	18,5 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	465g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780735622678
ISBN13	978-0-7356-2267-8