Written in a style attractive and relevant for any software analyst or designer, Mastering the Requirements Process and useful to provide strong guidance for determining requirements for a more complete software that leads to better software overall. It's also filled with innovative advice. The core of this book is the author Volere Requirements Process Model, a step-by-step guide to gathering your requirements. Even if you do not use Volere model in toto, you can benefit from the concepts of "trawling" (a metaphor for the requirements-gathering process), quality gateways (in which tentative requirements are evaluated for inclusion in the project), and wise use of patterns to help simplify process. Anchored by numerous examples (including many samples of successful requirements), this book provides interesting mix of new ideas along with a clear presentation was Dragan. - Richard Topics covered: Volere Requirements Process Model; Blastoff projects; determine requirements; project constraints, and user stakeholders constraint requirements, use cases, business events, systems that are adjacent; innovation; trawling for requirements: internships, interviews, and videotape, and nonfunctional functional requirements, according to the criteria; gateway quality, traceability, prototyping and scenarios; low and high fidelity prototypes, patterns and requirements reuse; improve the requirements gathering process.