Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach, Second Edition

Chapter 30. Agile Requirements Methods

Key Points

• The purpose of the software development method is to mitigate the risks inherent in the project.

• The purpose of the requirements management method is to mitigate requirements-related risks on the project.

• No one method fits all projects, therefore the method must be tailored to the particular project.

• Three requirements methods (extreme, agile, and robust) are presented.

Mitigating Requirements Risk with Effective Requirements Practices

So far in this book, we have described a comprehensive set of practices intended to help teams more effectively manage software requirements imposed on a system under development. Since the systems that teams are building today can be exceedingly complex, often comprising ...