Managing Systems Requirements: Methods, Tools, and Cases

This volume provides a complete blueprint for aligning business process objectives, covering methods for modeling existing processes, extracting and modeling systems requirements, and designing and evaluating prototypes. IS managers, process analysts, and systems planners, designers, and developers, will find how–to guidelines throughout, explaining a practical methodology for the technical reengineering of today‘s software–intensive industries. The author includes recommended software solutions that are off–the–shelf; a programmer–friendly "methods, tools, and cases" approach; private and public sector case studies; and both high level requirements modeling and functional requirements analysis. This is the first book to get down to brass tacks with practical methods, real life case studies, and commercial software tools for the job of technical reengineering today‘s business processes.

From the back cover:

A ground–breaking new approach to practical systems requirements management... Here is the first book to offer a practical way to identify systems requirements and manage them when budgets and schedules are tight. It describes a process that leads from fuzzy, ill–defined requirements that can be modeled and prototyped. Managing Systems Requirements presents methods for communicating requirements and achieving buy–in from system users and owners before expensive programming begins. There are techniques, tools, and software suggestions for project managers and systems analysts, plus case studies that illustrate how the whole requirements gathering process works. The cornerstone of the book is its practicality; it combines in one place a suite of methods, templates, off–the–shelf computer–based tools, and real–world examples that software developers can use to get a handle on software requirements and solve the problems they face every day on the job. IS managers, system project managers, systems analysts, and programmers will find the book indispensable and value how it integrates technical methods with organizational realities.