Mastering the Requirements Process, 4th Edition
by James Robertson, Suzanne Robertson, Adrian Reed
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Ready-Made Solutions
Most development efforts include some ready-made solutions. Whether your development intends to deliver a consumer product, a service, or software, some—perhaps almost all—of it will be bought and not built. You might prefer to call this an off-the-shelf (OTS) solution, and it does not matter whether you are buying it (commercial off-the-shelf or COTS), you are getting it free as open-source software, you are subscribing to a cloud computing service or software was a service (SAAS), or it is a legacy solution. Because it exists already, let’s just call it “ready-made.”
In this part of the book, we are discussing prototypes and how they are involved in exploring the problem space and discovering requirements. To satisfy ...
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