OverviewOptimize Your Entire Requirements
Process–and Use Requirements to Build More Successful
Software
Using IBM® Rational®
RequisitePro®, you can systematically improve the way you
create and maintain requirements–and use those requirements
to build more effective, higher-quality software. Now, for the
first time, there's a comprehensive, hands-on guide to
optimally using RequisitePro in real-world development
environments.
Utilizing a start-to-finish sample project,
requirements expert Peter Zielczynski introduces an
organized, best-practice approach to managing requirements and
shows how to implement every step with RequisitePro. You'll
walk through planning, eliciting, and clarifying stakeholder
requirements; building use cases and other key project documents;
managing changing requirements; transforming requirements into
designs; and much more. Every stage of the process is illuminated
with examples, realistic artifacts, and practical solutions.
This book is an invaluable resource for
everyone who creates requirements, and everyone who relies on them:
business analysts, systems analysts, project managers, architects,
designers, developers, and testers alike.
Coverage includes
Overcoming the three leading causes of project failure: lack of
user input, incomplete requirements and specifications, and poorly
managed change
Understanding each type of software requirement–how they
interrelate, and what makes a good requirement
Establishing a Requirements Management Plan that describes how
requirements are created and handled throughout the project
lifecycle
Developing a Vision document that can drive your project from
beginning to end
Creating high-quality use cases
Using requirements as the basis for system design
Leveraging RequisitePro features for improved project
management
Integrating requirements management with the IBM Rational
Unified Process®
Foreword xvii
Preface xix
Acknowledgments xxiii
About the Author xxv
Part I: Overview 1
Chapter 1: Requirements Management 3
Chapter 2: Overview of RequisitePro 23
Part II:
Requirements Management
Activities 33
Chapter 3: Establishing a Requirements
Management Plan 35
Chapter 4: Setting up the Project
45
Chapter 5: Requirements Elicitation 63
Chapter 6: Developing a Vision Document
99
Chapter 7: Creating Use Cases 129
Chapter 8: Supplementary Specification
157
Chapter 9: Creating Test Cases from Use
Cases 191
Chapter 10: Creating Test Cases from
Supplementary Requirements
221
Chapter 11: Object-Oriented Design 243
Chapter 12: Documentation 273
Part III: Other Topics 285
Chapter 13: Managing Projects 287
Chapter 14: Requirements Management in the
Rational Unified Process 295
Part IV: Review 311
Chapter 15: Summary 313
Appendix: Sample Requirements Management
Plan 319
Index 327
