The complete guide to requirements analysis for every system analyst and project team member.
Thousands of software projects are doomed from the start because they're based on a faulty understanding of the business problem that must be solved. The solution is effective requirements analysis. In Requirements Analysis: From Business Views to Architecture, David C. Hay gives you a comprehensive overview of the world's best requirements analysis practices, organized coherently to help you choose and execute the best approach for every project. In addition, he guides you through the process of defining an architecture—from gaining a full understanding of what business people need to the creation of a complete enterprise architecture.
Practical solutions will help you:
- Focus more clearly on the goals of requirements analysis
- Represent the fundamental structures and systems environment of any enterprise more accurately
- Identify key information processing gaps and discover which information technologies can best address them
- Clarify the goals of your new system and reflect them more accurately in your models
- Understand crucial people-related issues that impact requirements
- Plan smooth transitions to new systems
Requirements Analysis: From Business Views to Architecture| David C. Hay (Author)| Prentice Hall
Table of Contents
Introduction
About Requirements Analysis
Chapter 1. A Framework for Architecture
Chapter 2. Managing Projects
Chapter 3. Column One: Data
Chapter 4. Column Two: Activities
Chapter 5. Column Four: People and Organizations
Chapter 6. Column Three: Locations
Chapter 7. Column Five: Timing
Chapter 8. Column Six: Motivation
Conclusion
A. The Zachman Framework
B. A Comparison of Data Modeling Techniques(Syntactic Conventions)
C. The Business Rules Group Motivation Model
D. The Business Rules Group and David C. Hay Modified Motivation Model
Glossary
Bibliography
LINK FOR THE BOOK
