在维格、比蒂编著的《软件需求(第3版)》中，这本需求工程方面的经典书籍得到了全面更新，包括新的主题，样例和认知。在两位软件需求社区优选者的带领下，你将获得需求开发和管理活动全过程中近期新的实践和工具。你可以把这些可行的，切合实际的技术带到工作中去――它能够帮助你减少开销，降低维护成本和减少为了交付更佳目标解决方案而不得不进行的返工。

Introduction xxv

Acknowledgments xxxi

PART I SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS: WHAT, WHY. AND WHO

CHAPTER 1 The essential software requirement 3

CHAPTER 2 Requirements from the customer's perspective 25

CHAPTER 3 Good practices for requirements engineering 43

CHAPTER 4 The business analyst 61

PART II REQUIREMENTS DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER 5 Establishing the business requirements 77

CHAPTER 6 Finding the voice of the user 101

CHAPTER 7 Requirements elicitation 119

CHAPTER 8 Understanding user requirements 143

CHAPTER 9 Playing by the rules 167

CHAPTER 10 Documenting the requirements 181

CHAPTER 11 Writing excellent requirements 203

CHAPTER 12 A picture is worth 1024 words 221

CHAPTER 13 Specifying data requirements 245

CHAPTER 14 Beyond functionality 261

CHAPTER 15 Risk reduction through prototyping 295

CHAPTER 16 First things first: Setting requirement priorities 313

CHAPTER 17 Validating the requirements 329

CHAPTER 18 Requirements reuse 351

CHAPTER 19 Beyond requirements development 365

PART III REQUIREMENTS FOR SPECIFIC PROJECT CLASSES

CHAPTER 20 Agile projects 383

CHAPTER 21 Enhancement and replacement projects 393

CHAPTER 22 Packaged solution projects 405

CHAPTER 23 Outsourced projects 415

CHAPTER 24 Business process automation projects 421

CHAPTER 25 Business analytics projects 427

CHAPTER 26 Embedded and other real-time systems projects 439

PART IV REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT

CHAPTER 27 Requirements management practices 457

CHAPTER 28 Change happens 471

CHAPTER 29 Links in the requirements chain 481

CHAPTER 30 Tools for requirements engineering 503

PART V IMPLEMENTING REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING

CHAPTER 31 Improving your requirements processes 517

CHAPTER 32 Software requirements and risk management 537

Epilogue 549

Appendix A 551

Appendix B 559

Appendix C 575

Glossary 597

References 605

Index 619

JOY BEATTY is a vice president at Seilevel, a professional services and training company in Austin, Texas, that helps redefine the way customers create software requirements. With 15 years of experience in business analysis, Joy evolves new methods and helps customers implement best practices that improve requirements elicitation and modeling. She assists Fortune 500 companies as they build business analysis centers of excellence. Joy has provided training to thousands of business analysts and is a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP). Joy graduated from Purdue University with BS degrees in both computer science and mathematics. Joy's passions beyond requirements include rowing, swimming, and being outside with her family.PA\Joy is actively involved as a leader in the requirements community. She has worked with the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) on A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide). Additionally, she writes about requirements methodologies in journals, white papers, and blog posts and presents at requirements-related conferences. She also co-authored Visual Models for Software Requirements (Microsoft Press, 2012). Joy can be reached at www.seilevelcorn and joybeatty@seilevel.corn.

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