Terms Optimize All Your Software Process? And Use Requirements to Build More Successful Using IBM Rational RequisitePro, you can systematically improve the way you create and maintain the requirements? And use requirements to develop more effective, high-quality software. This book is an invaluable resource for everyone who creates requirements, and all the people who depend on them: business analysts, systems analysts, project managers, architects, designers, developers, and testers together. Coverage includes Overcoming the three main causes of project failure: lack of user input, incomplete requirements and specifications, and less able to change Understand the needs of every type of software how they are interconnected, and what makes a good requirement Forming Requirements Management Plan that describes how the requirements? created and handled throughout the project cycle Develop Vision document that can drive your project from start to finish Creating high-quality use cases using the requirements as a basis for system design Leveraging RequisitePro features to improve project management Integrating requirements management with the IBM Rational Unified Process Preface xvii Introduction xix Acknowledgments xxiii About the Author XXV Part I: Overview 1 Chapter 1: Requirements Management 3 Chapter 2: Overview of RequisitePro 23 Part II: Requirements Management Activities 33 Chapter 3: Creating a Requirements Management Plan 35 Chapter 4: Setting up the Project 45 Chapter 5: Requirements elicitation 63 Chapter 6: Developing a Vision Document 99 Chapter 7: Creating Use Cases 129 Chapter 8: Supplementary Specification 157 Chapter 9: Creating Test Cases Use Casesfrom 191 Chapter 10: Creating Test Casesfrom Additional Requirements 221 Chapter 11: Object-Oriented Design 243 Chapter 12: Documentation 273 Part III: 285 Other Topics Chapter 13: Managing Projects 287 Chapter 14: Requirements Management in the Rational Unified Process 295 Part IV: Review 311 Chapter 15: Summary 313 Appendix: Sample Requirements Management Plan 319 Index 327