Chapter . Team Skill 5 Summary

In Team Skill 5, we learned how to refine requirements so as to completely and concisely capture the user's needs in such a way that the developer can build an application to meet those needs. In addition, requirements need to have sufficient specificity so that we can tell when they have been met. We needn't be alarmed by this. Often, it is our team—after all, we are closest to the project—that can provide this specificity; this is one of our opportunities to make sure that the right system gets defined.

Various ways of organizing and documenting these requirements exist. We focused on the use-case technique for functional requirements and the supplementary specification for nonfunctional requirements. Although we ...

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