Chapter 6. Requirements

By Ahmad K. Shuja

This chapter reviews the activities performed to ensure that the stakeholder requests are captured appropriately and transformed into a set of requirements artifacts. These requirements artifacts enable you to establish the scope of the system to be built and provide detailed requirements for what the system must do. Each of the activities discussed represents a high-level goal to achieve to perform effective requirements management.

Overview

Requirements management is a term describing the activities involved in eliciting, documenting, and maintaining a set of requirements for a software system. It is about discovering what the stakeholders need the system to do for them. Incomplete requirements and ...

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