Managing Software Requirements:A Unified Approach
作者: ()Dean Leffingwell,()Don Widrig著
出版社:高等教育出版社,2002
简介: Context and Acknowledgments
The knowedge delivered in this book represents the cumulative experience of a number of individuals who have spent their careers defining, develop-ing, and delivering world-class sofrware systems. This book is not an aca-demic trearment of requirements management. During the l980s, Don Widrig and I were execuhves in a small company producing sofrware solu-tions for customers. When we developed many of the requirements manage-ment practices described in this book, our perspective was of those accountable for both the outcomes of the sofuvare systems we developed and the results that had to be delivered to shareholders. As the performance of the delivered software was crihcal to the success of the business venturetself, we tended to discourage petty biases, personal preferences, and exper-imentation with unproven techniques.
Over the past decade, the techniques have evolved and have been enhanced by new experiences, extended with the help of additional expertise, in differ-ent companies and in different circumstances. But all of the techniques pre-sented are "real-world" proven and have withstood the test of time. Perhaps even more important, they have withstood the technological change that has occurred in the industry during this period. Indeed, most of the principles in this book are independent of changing trends in sofuvare technology We can therefore at least hope that the knowledge expressed herein can deliver some lasting value.