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Learn how to communicate with a project’s stakeholders to elicit software requirements

Deal every phase of the requirement life cycle with pragmatic methods and techniques

Manage the software development process and deliver verified requirements using Scrum and Kanban

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Difficulty in accurately capturing and managing requirements is the most common cause of software project failure. Learning how to analyze and model requirements and produce specifications that are connected to working code is the single most fundamental step that you can take toward project success. This book focuses on a delineated and structured methodology that will help you analyze requirements and write comprehensive, verifiable specifications. You'll start by learning about the different entities in the requirements domain and how to discover them based on customer input. You’ll then explore tried-and-tested methods such as impact mapping and behavior-driven development (BDD), along with new techniques such as D3 and feature-first development. This book takes you through the process of modeling customer requirements as impact maps and writing them as executable specifications. You’ll also understand how to organize and prioritize project tasks using Agile frameworks, such as Kanban and Scrum, and verify specifications against the delivered code. Finally, you'll see how to start implementing the requirements management methodology in a real-life scenario. By the end of this book, you'll be able to model and manage requirements to create executable specifications that will help you deliver successful software projects.

Who is this book for?

This book is for software engineers, business analysts, product managers, project managers, and software project stakeholders looking to learn a variety of techniques and methodologies for collating accurate software requirements. A fundamental understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC) is needed to get started with this book. Although not necessary, basic knowledge of the Agile philosophy and practices, such as Scrum, along with some programming experience will help you to get the most out of this book.

What you will learn

Kick-start the requirements-gathering and analysis process in your first meeting with the client

Accurately define system behavior as features

Model and describe requirement entities using Impact Mapping and BDD

Create a feature-based product backlog and use it to drive software development

Write verification code to turn features into executable specifications

Deliver the right software and respond to change using either Scrum or Kanban

Choose appropriate software tools to provide transparency and traceability to your clients

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Mohith Kumar Oct 12, 2020

This is well written! One of the keys skills for any good business consultant or a solution architect is managing business requirements! This books provides best practices around this topic which is a rare find!Author documents in a plain English with examples making this a great read

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Maureen L-L Jan 15, 2021

I have been working in the software industry for over 20 years and am very familiar with traditional software development and modern agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, eXtreme Programming, etc. This book was a provides a great practical approach to managing the chaos of requirements that many agile practitioners have unleashed on us. Too many people in our industry are either agile "purists" who think only in terms of user stories (which results in a giant mess of unstructured requirements) or are peddling overblown methodologies like SAFe that require over 50 different artifact types and seem to be anything but agile (IMHO). This book was great in clearly distinguishing between different types of requirement (goal vs. capability vs. specification) and how you can put them together to make sense of a software project. Also it is a great primer on BDD and using gherkin syntax as a way to write requirements. I would say you should buy this book for either its overall approach to requirements elicitation and/or its great intro to using BDD, in many ways two books in one. In summary, a great book for anyone in the software field, and one that offers some unique, new fresh insights.

Govindadas PAI Nov 02, 2022

Very relevant for todays digital innovation and acceleration of faster development of software solutions. Some of the key aspects are not new to me but the way these are articulated reinforced my views as well. A must read for Business Analyst.

Managing Software Requirements the Agile Way: Bridge the gap between software requirements and executable specifications to deliver successful projects

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