Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise

We need better approaches to understanding and managing software requirements, and Dean provides them in this book. He draws ideas from three very useful intellectual pools: classical management practices, Agile methods, and lean product development. By combining the strengths of these three approaches, he has produced something that works better than any one in isolation.

From the Foreword by Don Reinertsen, President of Reinertsen & Associates; author of Managing the Design Factory; and leading expert on rapid product development

Effective requirements discovery and analysis is a critical best practice for serious application development. Until now, however, requirements and Agile methods have rarely coexisted peacefully. For many enterprises considering Agile approaches, the absence of effective and scalable Agile requirements processes has been a showstopper for Agile adoption. In Agile Software Requirements, Dean Leffingwell shows exactly how to create effective requirements in Agile environments.

• Part I presents the big picture of Agile requirements in the enterprise, and describes an overall process model for Agile requirements at the project team, program, and portfolio levels
• Part II describes a simple and lightweight, yet comprehensive model that Agile project teams can use to manage requirements
• Part III shows how to develop Agile requirements for complex systems that require the cooperation of multiple teams
• Part IV guides enterprises in developing Agile requirements for ever-larger systems of systems, application suites, and product portfolios

This book will help you leverage the benefits of Agile without sacrificing the value of effective requirements discovery and analysis. Youll find proven solutions you can apply right nowwhether youre a software developer or tester, executive, project/program manager, architect, or team leader.

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Praise for Agile Software Requirements

 

In my opinion, there is no book out there that more artfully addresses the specific needs of agile teams, programs, and portfolios all in one. I believe this book is an organizational necessity for any enterprise.

Sarah Edrie, Director of Quality Engineering, Harvard Business School

 

Agile Software Requirements and Mr. Leffingwells teachings have been very influential and inspiring to our organization. They have allowed us to make critical cultural changes to the way we approach software development by following the framework hes outlined here. It has been an extraordinary experience.

Chris Chapman, Software Development Manager, Discount Tire

 

This book supplies empirical wisdom connected with strong and very well-structured theory of succeeding with software projects of different scales. People new to agile, practitioners, or accomplished agilistswe all were waiting for such a book.

Oleksandr (Alex) Yakyma, Agile Consultant, www.enter-Agile.com

 

This book presents practical and proven agile approaches for managing software requirements for a team, collaborating teams of teams, and all across the enterprise. However, this is not only a great book on agile requirements engineering; rather, Leffingwell describes the bigger picture of how the enterprise can achieve the benefits of business agility by implementing lean product development flow. His Big Picture of agile requirements is an excellent reference for any organization pursuing an intrinsically lean software development operational mode. Best of all, weve applied many of these principles and practices at Nokia (and even helped create some of them), and therefore we know they work.

Juha-Markus Aalto, Agile Change Program Manager, Nokia Corporation

 

This pragmatic, easy-to-understand, yet thought-provoking book provides a hands-on guide to addressing a key problem that enterprises face: How to make requirements practices work effectively in large-scale agile environments. Dean Leffingwells focus on lean principles is refreshing and much needed!

Per Kroll, author, and Chief Architect for Measured Improvements, IBM

 

Agile programming is a fluid development environment. This book serves as a good starting point for learning.

Brad Jackson, SAS Institute Inc.

 

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Dean Leffingwell, a thirty-year veteran of the software industry, is an entrepreneur, software executive, consultant and author. He was cofounder and CEO of a number of software companies, including publicly traded RELA/Colorado Medtech; Requisite, Inc., makers of RequisitePro and now part of IBM's Rational Division; and ProQuo, Inc. Mr. Leffingwell formerly served as chief methodologist to Rally Software. Prior to that, he served as vice president of Rational Software, now IBM's Rational Division. Mr. Leffingwell has been a student, coach, and author of contemporary software engineering and management practices throughout his career. He is the author of Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises (Addison-Wesley, 2007). He is also coauthor of Managing Software Requirements, now in its second edition (Addison-Wesley, 2003). Mr. Leffingwell has a BS in aeronautical engineering from the University of Illinois, and a MS in engineering from the University of Colorado.

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Foreword xxiii

Preface xxvii

Acknowledgments xxxiii

About the Author xxxv

 

Introduction to the Team Level 47

Introduction to the Program Level 63

Introduction to the Portfolio Level 83

Background for the Case Study 93

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