Learn effective, field-tested techniques to manage the requirements engineering process and get expert guidance from a leading requirements engineering authority. This updated edition features sample documents, a troubleshooting guide, and case examples.

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Great overview on methodology of requirements gathering - 2009-11-09
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Wiegers' book is one of the standard references for requirements gathering that's around. We have these on our shelves at our company for all the analysts and while there are other references around on project management and project implementation, this book has outlines of all the different parts focusing on requirements gathering: gathering participants on the project and client side, setting expectations, how to document, what your first steps are as well as the pitfalls. Every analyst needs this on their book shelf as a reference.

Excellent and very practical book, I DO recommend it - 2009-04-09
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I do recommend this book, both for experienced of novice sofware developers or consultants for several reasons:

1. The content has a great balance between practical advice and theory, so it won't burden you with information applicable to 5% (e.g. huge projects) of your daily work
2. It is well written, both in content and edition style (format) so it is very easy to read and understand quickly
3. It has references to standards and literacy but it is just to illustrate and not so heavily that makes it hard to read

To sum up, its one of the very best SW Engineering books I've read so far and so that I do recommend it.

Alex Ballarin
IT Consultant
Cynertia Consulting, Barcelona, Spain

Bible of requirements - 2008-09-20
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Very practical book about requirements, from communication with customer to changing Your organization requirement elicitation process. Almost anything is thoroughly covered. Companion site includes numerous documents to get You started.

Great coverage of requirements development with example documents - 2008-06-07
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I have had this book for some time and recently realized how often I use it as a reference when I am trying to figure out a way to document or model a feature. This book is well worth the price, I have definitely benefited from keeping this book near my desk.

Although this book is not to replace books dedicated to topics such as Use Cases, technical writing, UML and modeling, change control, or test case development it is a great place to see them all work together in context.

Don't forget to visit the `Requirements Engineering" section of the authors' site. There you will find the samples from the book and other useful articles.

Nice book! - 2008-05-18
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Absolutely happy with it. Having recently completed a project this book gave me the opportunity to look back and think about things I could have done /planned better.