Publisher Description

Apply best practices for capturing, analyzing, and implementing software requirements through visual models—and deliver better results for your business. The authors—experts in eliciting and visualizing requirements—walk you through a simple but comprehensive language of visual models that has been used on hundreds of real-world, large-scale projects. Build your fluency with core concepts—and gain essential, scenario-based context and implementation advice—as you progress through each chapter.

Transcend the limitations of text-based requirements data using visual models that more rigorously identify, capture, and validate requirementsGet real-world guidance on best ways to use visual models—how and when, and ways to combine them for best project outcomesPractice the book's concepts as you work through chaptersChange your focus from writing a good requirement to ensuring a complete system

Author Biography

Anthony Chen is a requirements architect who has developed a requirements training program used internationally, and helped pioneer key requirements-modeling concepts.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Part I: An Introduction to Models

Chapter 1: Introduction to RML
Chapter 2: Model Categorization


Part II: Objectives Models

Chapter 3: Business Objectives Model
Chapter 4: Objective Chain
Chapter 5: Key Performance Indicator Model
Chapter 6: Feature Tree
Chapter 7: Requirements Mapping Matrix


Part III: People Models

Chapter 8: Org Chart
Chapter 9: Process Flow
Chapter 10: Use Case
Chapter 11: Roles and Permissions Matrix


Part IV: Systems Models

Chapter 12: Ecosystem Map
Chapter 13: System Flow
Chapter 14: User Interface Flow
Chapter 15: Display-Action-Response
Chapter 16: Decision Table
Chapter 17: Decision Tree
Chapter 18: System Interface Table


Part V: Data Models

Chapter 19: Business Data Diagram
Chapter 20: Data Flow Diagram
Chapter 21: Data Dictionary
Chapter 22: State Table
Chapter 23: State Diagram
Chapter 24: Report Table


Part VI: Models in the Big Picture

Chapter 25: Selecting Models for a Project
Chapter 26: Using Models Together


Quick Lookup Models Grids
General Guidelines for Models
Exercise Answers
Glossary

Long Description

Apply best practices for capturing, analyzing, and implementing software requirements through visual models--and deliver better results for your business. The authors--experts in eliciting and visualizing requirements--walk you through a simple but comprehensive language of visual models that has been used on hundreds of real-world, large-scale projects. Build your fluency with core concepts--and gain essential, scenario-based context and implementation advice--as you progress through each chapter. Transcend the limitations of text-based requirements data using visual models that more rigorously identify, capture, and validate requirements Get real-world guidance on best ways to use visual models--how and when, and ways to combine them for best project outcomes Practice the book's concepts as you work through chapters Change your focus from writing a good requirement to ensuring a complete system

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