Getting and Writing IT Requirements in a Lean and Agile World: Business Analysis Techniques for Discovering User Stories, Features, and Gherkin (Given, Hathaway Angela, Hathaway Tom
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User Stories are a great method for expressing stakeholder requirements, whether your projects follow an Agile, Iterative, or a Waterfall methodology. They are the basis for developers to deliver a suitable information technology (IT) app or application. Well-structured user stories express a single action to achieve a specific goal from the perspective of a single role. When writing user stories, stakeholders knowledgeable about the role should focus on the business result that the IT solution will enable while leaving technology decisions up to the developers. Good user stories are relevant to the project, unambiguous, and understandable to knowledge peers. The best user stories also contain crucial non-functional (quality) requirements, which are the best weapon in the war against unsatisfactory performance in IT solutions.
This book presents two common User Story structures to help you ensure that your User Stories have all the required components and that they express the true business need as succinctly as possible. It offers 5 simple rules to ensure that your User Stories are the best that they can be. That, in turn, will reduce the amount of time needed in User Story elaboration and discussion with the development team.
After reading this book you will be able to:
Translate business needs into well-structured User Stories
Write User Stories that express the what and avoid the how
Apply five simple rules for writing effective User Stories
Clarify assumptions in User Stories by adding context
Identify and remove ambiguous and subjective terms and phrases in User Stories
Select the appropriate format for expressing User Stories for Agile Projects
Write stakeholder requirements in User Story format that solve business problems
Elaborate User Stories to identify measurable non-functional requirements
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
The term "User Story" is a relative new addition to our language and its definition is evolving. In today's parlance, a complete User Story has three primary components, namely the "Card", the "Conversation", and the "Criteria". Different roles are responsible for creating each component.
The "Card" expresses a business need. A representative of the business community is responsible for expressing the business need. Historically (and for practical reasons) the "Card" is the User Story from the perspective of the business community. Since we wrote this book specifically to address that audience, we use the term "User Story" in that context throughout.
The "Conversation" is an ongoing discussion between a developer responsible for creating software that meets the business need and the domain expert(s) who defined it (e.g., the original author of the "Card"). The developer initiates the "Conversation" with the domain expert(s) to define the "Criteria" and any additional information the developer needs to create the application. There is much to be written about both the "Conversation" and the "Criteria", but neither component is dealt with in any detail in this publication.
A well-written User Story ("Card") can drastically reduce the time needed for the "Conversation". It reduces misinterpretations, misunderstandings, and false starts, thereby paving the way for faster delivery of working software. We chose to limit the content of this publication to the "User Story" as understood by the business community to keep the book focused and address the widest possible audience.
Описание: What is "requirements elicitation" and why should you care? Why should anyone read a book about requirements gathering? All you have to do to get the requirements for anything is ask everyone involved what they want it to do, right? If you are capable of understanding their answers, you should be done in a heartbeat. So, why the fuss? Based on the track record of the Information Technology (IT) profession, it appears that gathering the right requirements from the right people to define the right IT solution for any organization is nearly impossible. Industry insiders cannot even agree on what to call the process. Over the years, we have tried "Requirements Gathering," "Requirements Capture," "Requirements Definition," "Requirements Discovery," and "Requirements Elicitation." Regardless what we call it, this book will give you a head start on getting the job done right. "Requirements Elicitation Interviews and Workshops - Simply Put " deals with the "soft skills" side of life, meaning attitudes and behaviors that promote effective requirements elicitation. In particular, you can learn how to: Define and distinguish five specific requirements elicitation approaches from one-on-one Requirements Interviews to Requirements Gathering Workshops - Evaluate the pros and cons of each approach for your organization and project - Define the seven habits to successful requirements discovery - Plan and prepare Requirements Interviews - Prepare, perform, and manage effective requirements gathering Workshops - Recognize the challenges and strengths of facilitated requirements workshops with cross-functional groups - Use informational and active listening to capture hidden requirements About the authors Angela and Tom Hathaway have trained, consulted, mentored and coached thousands of business analysts around the world for organizations from small businesses to Fortune 100. Based on their combined 60+ years of experience in Information Technology and Business Analysis, they serve up a unique perspective on this burgeoning field of knowledge.
Defining solution-level requirements (aka functional and non-functional requirements) is a core competency for anyone in an organization responsible for defining future Information Technology (IT) applications. "Functional and Non-Functional Requirements - Simply Put " will give
Business Analysts,
Systems Analysts,
Agile Product Owners,
Product Managers,
Subject Matter Experts (a.k.a. SMEs),
and really "anyone wearing the BA hat"
simple, repeatable techniques for extracting solution-level specifications from business and stakeholder requirements that are expressed in complete sentence form.
My co-author, Angela, and I have used these techniques on hundreds of IT projects around the globe and we know the value each provides. Using these approaches will improve your ability to identify and document requirements at the level of detail that solution providers (vendors or developers) need to deliver the right technology for their organization.
The presented techniques will work on any set of well-expressed requirement statements. However, they were specifically designed for and work best with requirement statements that follow the "Rules for Writing Effective Requirements" that we present in our course and book "Writing Effective Requirements for IT - Simply Put ." Regardless of your job title or role, if you are involved in defining future business solutions, this book will help you communicate your business needs to solution providers. It will reduce the potential for misunderstandings that undermine IT's ability to deliver the right technology for the business.
Upon successful completion of this course, you can:
Decompose Business and Stakeholder Requirement Statements to identify Functional and Non-Functional Requirements
Give those responsible for designing, building, and/or buying the solution the kind of information they need to make the decisions that are right for the business
Identify Informational, Performance, and Constraining Requirements from a list of Functional Requirements
Document and manage Business, Stakeholder, Functional and Non-Functional Requirements
Capture and clarify Business Rules and External Constraints that mandate limits to the delivered solution
Develop measurable Solution Requirements that facilitate End-User Acceptance Testing
The course includes optional, online exercises with immediate feedback featuring our recommended resolution and the rationale behind it. At the end of the course, a "Final Exam' will allow you to test your understanding of how all of the presented ideas work together to make your requirements more easily understood by all respective target audiences.
About the Authors:
Angela and Tom Hathaway have trained, consulted, mentored and coached thousands of business analysts around the world for organizations from small businesses to Fortune 100. Based on their combined 70+ years of experience in information technology and business analysis, they serve up a unique perspective on this burgeoning field of knowledge.
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