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How to Specify your Software Requirements
Milan Kratochvil, Kiseldalens Metod AB
Barry McGibbon, Princeton Softech
November 2002
Paperback
9780521892421

    If you are a non-technical person with a stake in the success of a software project, this book is for you. Business managers often find it impossible to communicate business objectives and specify their software requirements to technical members of staff. This beginner's guide teaches readers to communicate with software developers in a more focused, effective way. It describes the basic diagrams of the UML modeling notation and shows how they are used to specify requirements in an unambiguous way. When used on project, the risk of failure through unclear requirements is removed.

    • First book of its kind, focuses only on software requirements
    • Empowers non-technical members of staff to communicate their needs to and check the work of software developers
    • Slim volume, practical approach makes book ideal for business travel reading

    Product details

    November 2002
    Paperback
    9780521892421
    126 pages
    229 × 152 × 7 mm
    0.18kg
    30 b/w illus.
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introduction. Software - yet another knowledge industry
    • 2. Aligning to the business
    • 3. Adding rigor to the requirements
    • 4. Sketching the inside structure
    • 5. Sketching the inside dynamics
    • 6. Moving towards components
    • 7. Mapping to data structures
    • 8. Concluding remarks.