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The Practical Guide to Agile Requirements Enginering

Tips for Communicating & Documenting Requirements

Peter Hruschka, Markus Meuten, and Dirk Fritsch

Requirements demonstrated pragmatically and practically using an example. Get to know req42, the agile framework that provides product owners with the tools they need for successful product development. Because agile requirements engineering is much more than just maintaining the product backlog.

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Business analysis and requirements engineering in an agile environment has its own rules. The goal is clear: development teams can solve almost anything if they can just identify and communicate the requirements. This book explains the agile RE framework req42 and uses a complete product example to show how you can get to grips with requirements just-in-time and deliver successful products to your customers and users. Over 100 practical tips and answers to many FAQs make the book a useful companion for your product developments.

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Peter Hruschka

Dr. Peter Hruschka is co-founder and enthusiastic user of the (open source) req42 documentation template for requirements communication and documentation, as well as co-founder of the corresponding arc42 template for software and systems architects.

He is also a founding member of the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB e.V.) and helped creating foundation and advanced level curricula for the certification of Business Analysts and Requiremetns Engineers worldwide.

Peter is a principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, an international think tank that has influenced the systematic development of IT systems through numerous publications and presentations.

He lives betweeen Aachen, Germany and his holiday home in Austria with his wife Monika. When not working, he can usually be found in the most beautiful parts of the world, trying to hit little white balls into holes that are way too far away and way too small.

E-mail: peter@systemsguild.com or hruschka@b-agile.de 

Markus Meuten

Dirk Fritsch

Contents

Table of Contents

I. Overview

  1. I.1 Basic Principles of req42
  2. Agile, Lean and Pragmatic
  3. Personal Responsibility for Product Success
  4. Result-driven, not Process-driven
  5. Agile is More than Scrum
  6. I.2 Why this Book?
  7. I.3 What this Book is NOT
  8. I.4 Our Assumptions about You
  9. I.5 Navigation Aid for People in a Hurry
  10. I.6 Conventions
  11. I.7 Thanks

II An Example to explain req42

  1. II.1 Business Goals
  2. Goals as PAM Cards
  3. Goals as Product Box
  4. II.2 Stakeholders
  5. II.3 Scope
  6. II.4 Product Backlog
  7. Backlog at a very early point in the life cycle
  8. Backlog after some refinement
  9. Backlog after more refinement
  10. II.5 Supporting Models
  11. II.6 Quality Requirements
  12. II.7 Constraints
  13. II.8 Domain Terminology
  14. II.9 Assets
  15. II.10 Team Structure
  16. II.11 Roadmap
  17. II.12 Risks & Assumptions
  18. 12.1 Risks
  19. 12.2 Assumptions
  20. II.13 Product Increments

III Basic rules for Effective Requirements Work

  1. Requirements for the Requirements Documentation
  2. Key Tips for Effective Documentation and Communication

IV. Effectively using req42

  1. IV.1 Business Goals
  2. Business Goals as “News from the Future”
  3. Goals as Value-Propositions of the most Important Stakeholder
  4. Further practical tips for the chapter “Business Goals/Visions”
  5. IV.2 Stakeholders
  6. IV.3 Scope
  7. IV.4 Product Backlog
  8. IV.5 Supporting Models
  9. IV.6 Quality Requirements
  10. IV.7 Constraints
  11. IV.8 Domain Terminology
  12. IV.9 Assets
  13. IV.10 Team Structure
  14. IV.11 Roadmap /Release Plan
  15. IV.12 Risks /Assumptions
  16. IV.13 Product Increments

V. req42 in Everyday Life

  1. V.1 Good Start with req42
  2. V.2 req42 for Existing Systems
  3. V.3 Greenfield Development with req42
  4. V.4 req42 in Agile Projects
  5. V.5 req42 for Very Large Systems

VI Tools for req42

  1. VI.1 Requirements for Tools
  2. VI.1 Wikis
  3. VI.2 Issue-Tracker
  4. VI.3 Story-Mapping-Tools
  5. VI.4 Requirements Management Tools
  6. VI.4 Modeling tools
  7. VI.5 Drawing Tools
  8. VI.6 Text Processing
  9. VI.7 Mindmapping
  10. VI.8 Recommendations

VII Frequently Asked Questions

  1. VII.1 General Questions
  2. VII.2 Questions about req42 Methodology
  3. VII.3 Questions about req42 Artifacts
  4. VII.3.1. About Business Goals
  5. VII.3.2. About Stakeholders
  6. VII.3.3. About Scope
  7. VII.3.4. About Product Backlog
  8. VII.3.5. About Supporting Models
  9. VII.3.6. About Quality Requirements
  10. VII.3.7. About Constraints
  11. VII.3.8. About Domain Terminology
  12. VII.3.9. About Assets
  13. VII.3.10. About Team Structure
  14. VII.3.11. About Roadmaps
  15. VII.3.12. About Risks
  16. VII.4 Questions about Modeling
  17. VII.5 Questions about Tools
  18. VII.6 Questions about Versions and Variants
  19. VII.7 Questions about Traceability
  20. VII.8 Questions about Projects and Project Management
  21. VII.9 Questions about Customizing req42

Literature and Other Sources

  1. Other recommended books on agile practices

The Authors

  1. Peter Hruschka
  2. Markus Meuten
  3. Dirk Fritsch

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