Managing Software Requirements: A Unified Approach

Part 2. Understanding User Needs

• Chapter 7 The Challenge of Requirements Elicitation

• Chapter 8 The Features of a Product or System

• Chapter 9 Interviewing

• Chapter 10 The Requirements Workshop

• Chapter 11 Brainstorming and Idea Reduction

• Chapter 12 Storyboarding

• Chapter 13 Applying Use Cases

• Chapter 14 Role Playing

• Chapter 15 Prototyping

The Standish Group survey cited "lack of user input" as the most common factor in challenged projects. Although 13 percent of respondents picked that cause as the primary root cause, an additional 12 percent of respondents picked "incomplete requirements and specifications." From this data, it's apparent that, for over one quarter of all challenged projects, a lack of understanding of the users' (and most likely other stakeholders') ...