Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach, Second Edition

Chapter 16. The Vision Document

Key Points

• Every software project will benefit from having a Vision document.

• The Vision document describes the application in general terms, including descriptions of the target market, the system users, and the application features.

• The Vision document defines, at a high level of abstraction, both the problem and the solution.

• The Delta Vision document focuses on what has changed.

Why is that? Because the Vision document, even if short or perhaps incomplete, helps assure that everyone working on the project is working toward a single objective. The team has common goals and a common playbook—a shared gestalt, if you ...