Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach, Second Edition

Chapter 31. Your Prescription for Requirements Management

Key Points

• Pick an overall requirements framework (extreme, agile, or robust) that applies to your general project type.

• Tailor that method to the details of your particular project context and to the skills of your project team.

• Develop a specific requirements management plan that documents your strategy.

• An example requirements management plan (prescription) is provided.

Selecting Your Requirements Approach

With an understanding of how to apply different requirements methods to different project contexts, we can now proceed to provide a prescription. However, if we are going to simplify the prescription, as is necessary to manage our level of abstraction—and to help us manage the scope of the ...