Every sentence radiates vast experience

This book is exactly what Ralph says (pXV): "a concise but thorough ready reference for Requirements Analysts (RA)". Every sentence provides sound advice and radiates Ralph's vast experience with the subject. I advise Requirements Analysts to read it through and then to read pieces of it again during the ongoing RA activities. Use it as a checklist before starting an activity, and when analyzing why a certain activity went wrong, to see how you can improve, and went (accidentally) right, to see how you can improve even further.
Ralph considers Performance Requirements and other "ilities" beyond the scope of this book (p53). This is unfortunate, because I think these types of Requirements are about the most important, and some more elaboration on how to handle and describe them would have been desirable. However, there are more subjects that he just gives pointers to and I agree with his statement (p97) that the RA should develop a working knowledge of many of the books referred to: "It is not sufficient to have a cursory knowledge of all of the requirements-related processes, practices, methods, techniques and tools. In order to be effective in his or her role, the RA must be able to recommend (and use) a good, proven approach and to facilitate deploying, implementing, and institutionalizing it". This handbook gives the RA a good start.

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