Creating Requirements for Software Projects: A Business Analyst's Guide to Requirements Management, Paperback/Pamela Paterson

If you're new to writing requirements, and you're assigned to a new enterprise software or IT project to create requirements, where do you begin? How do you elicit requirements effectively from stakeholders? What's a good requirement versus a bad one? This book explains how to write requirements according to the standards in A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge(R) (the BABOK(R) Guide) published by the International Association of Business Analysts. It describes the process you'll need to go through from start to finish, from the point that you're assigned to the project to when you finalize your requirements. It provides suggestions for tools, processes, and techniques you'll need to develop quality-oriented requirements for your stakeholders, all aligned with the knowledge areas of the BABOK(R) Guide. Some examples of requirements for the Agile software methodology are also provided. This book is written by Pamela Paterson , MS, CBAP, who is a senior business analyst with over 20 years of experience on enterprise IT projects. Pamela has written several books, including the #1 international best-seller Get the Job.