Business specifications

One step is crucial to the success of virtually every software development project: specifying the business problem with clarity and precision. Business Specifications brings together the latest real-world techniques for doing so. Independent of methodology, and refreshingly practical, this book contains extensive examples drawn from real consulting experience in financial services, insurance, telecommunications, and other key industries. Co-chair of numerous OOPSLA and ECOOP workshops, Haim Kilov shows how to bring discipline to the process of eliciting business requirements and expressing them accurately and completely -- in terms businesspeople and developers will both understand. Learn how to save money by reusing business patterns common to many or all projects -- and how to use specifications development to support your broader business transformation goals. Discover proven techniques for recovering knowledge "buried" throughout your business. Walk through examples of poorly drafted specifications and learn exactly how to fix them. Above all, learn how to tame complexity while capturing the essence of a business process in a specification that can not only be implemented efficiently, but can evolve as the business changes. Managers, developers, analysts, subject matter experts and others involved in developing business specifications.

Features

• Based on successes in finance, insurance, telecom and other key industries.
  
• Works with any methodology you choose.
  
• Supports your key business transformation goals.