Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach, Second Edition

Part 3. Defining the System

In Team Skill 1, we developed the skills that focus the team on analyzing the problem. In so doing, we came to fully understand the problem being solved before we invested any serious effort in the solution. We were focused fully on the problem domain.

The amount of information we must manage increases rapidly as we move lower on the pyramid.

In Team Skill 2, we described a set of techniques the team can use to understand user needs and features proposed for the system. These user needs and features live at the top of our requirements pyramid, representing the most critical information we must understand and driving everything ...