Beyond Requirements: Analysis with an Agile Mindset

In Beyond Requirements, Kent J. McDonald shows how applying analysis techniques with an agile mindset can radically transform analysis from merely “gathering and documenting requirements” to an important activity teams use to build shared understanding. First, McDonald discusses the unique agile mindset, reviews the key principles underlying it, and shows how these principles link to effective analysis. Next, he puts these principles to work in four wide-ranging and thought-provoking case studies. Finally, he drills down on a full set of techniques for effective agile analysis, using examples to show how, why, and when they work.

McDonald’s strategies will teach you how to understand stakeholders’ needs, identify the best solution for satisfying those needs, and build a shared understanding of your solution that persists throughout the product lifecycle. He also demonstrates how to iterate your analysis, taking advantage of what you learn throughout development, testing, and deployment so that you can continuously adapt, refine, and improve.

Whether you’re an analysis practitioner or you perform analysis tasks as a developer, manager, or tester, McDonald’s techniques will help your team consistently find and deliver better solutions.

Coverage includes

• Core concepts for analysis: needs/ solutions, outcome/output, discovery/delivery
• Adapting Lean Startup ideas for IT projects: customer delivery, build–measure–learn, and metrics
• Structuring decisions, recognizing differences between options and commitments, and overcoming cognitive biases
• Focusing on value: feature injection, minimum viable products, and minimum marketable features
• Understanding how analysis flows alongside your project’s lifecycle
• Analyzing users: mapping stakeholders, gauging commitment, and creating personas
• Understanding context: performing strategy (enterprise) analysis
• Clarifying needs: applying decision filters, assessing project opportunities, stating problems
• Investigating solutions: impact and story mapping, collaborative modeling, and acceptance criteria definition                   

Beyond Requirements: Analysis with an Agile Mindset| Kent J. McDonald (Author)| Addison-Wesley Professional   

         

Table of Contents

Part I: Ideas
Chapter 1. Guiding Principles
Chapter 2. Helpful Concepts
Chapter 3. Influence of Lean Startup
Chapter 4. Decision Making
Chapter 5. Deliver Value
Chapter 6. Analysis with an Agile Mindset

Part II: Case Studies
Chapter 7. Case Study: Conference Submission System
Chapter 8. Case Study: Commission System
Chapter 9. Case Study: Data Warehouse
Chapter 10. Case Study: Student Information System

Part III: Techniques
Chapter 11. Understanding Stakeholders
Chapter 12. Understanding Context
Chapter 13. Understanding the Need
Chapter 14. Understanding the Solution(s)
Chapter 15. Organizing and Persisting Solution Information

Part IV: Resources
Glossary
Introduction
Definitions
References
Index
Code Snippets

LINK FOR THE BOOK

https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Requirements-Analysis-Software-Development-ebook/dp/B014PO7XYM/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Beyond+Requirements%3A+Analysis+with+an+Agile+Mindset&qid=1593699051&sr=8-1