BY Karl E. Wiegers

Practical ways to manage or participate in the requirements engineering process

As a developer, have you ever produced software that satisfied all the project spec sand seemingly none of the customers expectations? As a customer, do you find yourself guessing exactly what kind of information developers need from you? Without formal, verifiable requirements and an effective system for managing them the result is usually a gap between what developers think they are supposed to build and what customers think they are going to get.

In SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS, youll discover practical, effective techniques for managing the requirements engineering process all the way through the development cycle including tools to facilitate that all-important communication between users, developers, and management.