One of the joys of product development, whether it be software, service, or hardware, is getting it right. The way to get it right is to uncover the real business problem, and to write the requirements for the solution that best solves that problem. Without the right requirements, it is impossible to build the right solution.

Mastering the Requirements Process, Fourth Edition, provides an industry-proven process for understanding the core of the business problem and then writing clear and testable requirements for its solution. This fourth edition is an almost complete rewrite that brings requirements discovery into today's world—it's the essential book for today's business analyst.

Product owners and project managers will also find it valuable as it explains how to precisely identify customer needs and wants, and how to do so effectively in any business or project environment.

The book teaches you how to:

• Use the Volere requirements process to identify requirements in both traditional and agile environments
• Incorporate off-the-shelf (OTS) solutions into your requirements discovery
• Utilize artificial intelligence (AI) as part of your requirements discovery and as part of your business solution
• Create quick prototypes to explore the problem space
• Understand functional and non-functional requirements
• Write better agile user stories
• Make your requirements and user stories measurable and testable using acceptance criteria
• Use business events as the heartbeat of business analysis
• Discover requirements in agile, commercial, and military project environments
• Identify and prioritize your customer segments
• Apply systems thinking when discovering requirements
• Use story maps and other requirements repository techniques
• Identify the most effective techniques for requirements discovery
• Align requirements discovery with agile development teams
• Make better early project decisions to increase your chances of success
• Use the Volere requirements specification template as a basis for your own requirement documents

"One of the most valuable aspects of this book is that it provides a process to follow that encourages asking the right questions and broadens perspective on the problem." --Kevin Brennan

Pages: 656, Dimensions: 18.8x18.8cm