Preface

What This Book Is About

I wrote Beyond Requirements to paint a picture of analysis in IT projects and how it can be applied with an agile mindset to make those projects more effective. For the purposes of this book I think of analysis as the activities involved with

• Understanding stakeholders

• Understanding context

• Understanding the need

• Understanding the solution(s)

• Organizing and persisting solution information

Performing these activities with an agile mindset, which I explain in Chapter 1, best positions teams to satisfy stakeholder needs. As a result, I assume that people are approaching work with an agile mindset (which is up to each individual to adopt) and that they are using agile techniques. Most of the techniques ...

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