More Effective Group Collaboration
Rating:
5 / 5
This book is about running requirements workshops and more. Requirements workshops are an important tool for understanding what you need to build. The techniques in this book will be useful in many other group discussion settings, and will help you have more productive meetings. The book discusses, among other things, roles in workshops and decision rules (deciding how to decide). Each chapter ends with a list of excellent references that you can use to probe further on techniques. Anyone who is involved in group decision making should own a copy of this book, read it, and refer back to it often.
It's proving its worth
Rating:
5 / 5
A good book is one that gives me a few ideas that help me do my job better. A great book is one that I find myself turning to over and over.I can tell that this is a great book because my copy is getting worn out. I've learned more from it than anything else I've read in the last several years about software requirements and I continue to refer to it. Sometimes I find a particular technique to help with the task at hand, and sometimes I reread a section in light of my recent experience on a project and learn something more subtle. Even if you aren't using the facilitated workshop approach to requirements, this book is still very useful. I refer over and over to its collection of different requirements models and how they relate to one another. There are other books that give a much more thorough treatment of a particular tool (Cockburn's Applying Use Cases for example) but none I've seen that tie it all together so well and help you pick the right analysis tools for the job. If you like this book, be sure to visit Ellen's web site, www.ebgconsulting.com. The Resources section has many checklists and templates that go beyond the material in the book and can save you a lot of time when preparing a requirements workshop. I'm surprised that only eight people (as of December 2003) have read and reviewed this. It's way better than that.
Must read for anyone in the requirements process.
Rating:
5 / 5
I do not work in software requirements, but this book is the best hands on guide for developing good requirements that I have found. It will guide you step by step on how to run your own workshop. Even if you only participate in a workshop, this book will help you to be a better contributer.
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