Part VI. On the Requirements Process

Everybody talks about project scope, but it’s not easy to find information about good ways to represent scope. Chapter 17, presents three techniques for distinguishing the contents of your next product release from excluded functionality and external entities that must interface with your product. Chapter 18, deals with another difficult question: knowing when it’s appropriate to baseline a set of requirements. Numerous factors are presented to contemplate before your team defines a requirements baseline.

Although the analyst’s natural inclination is to document requirements in the form of structured natural language text, representing requirements using a variety of techniques adds considerable value. If you ...

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