{"product_id":"9780134022925","title":"Designing the Requirements: Building Applications that the User Wants and Needs","description":"\u003cp\u003eToo many software applications don’t do what’s needed or they do it clumsily, frustrating their users and owners. The core problem: poorly conceived and poorly crafted requirements. In \u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eDesigning the Requirements,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e Chris Britton explains why it’s not enough to simply “gather” requirements—you need to \u003ci\u003edesign \u003c\/i\u003ethem.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBritton offers powerful techniques for understanding stakeholders’ concerns and working with stakeholders to get the requirements right. Using Britton’s context-driven approach to requirements design, you can detect inconsistencies, incompleteness, poor usability, and misalignment with business goals upstream—long before developers start coding. You can also design outward-looking applications and services that will integrate more effectively in a coherent IT architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFirst, Britton explains what requirements design really means and presents a hierarchy of designs that move step by step from requirements through implementation. Next, he demonstrates how to build on requirements processes you already use and how to overcome their serious limitations in large-scale development. Then, he walks you through designing your application’s relationship with the business, users, data, and other software to ensure superior usability, security, and maximum scalability and resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWhether you’re a software designer, architect, project manager, or programmer, \u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eDesigning the Requirements\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e will help you design software that works—for users, IT, and the entire business.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCoverage includes\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cul\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Designing the \u003ci\u003eentire \u003c\/i\u003ebusiness solution, not just its software component \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Using engineering-style design analysis to find flaws before implementation \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Designing services, and splitting large development efforts into smaller, more manageable projects \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Planning logical user interfaces that lead to superior user experiences \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Designing databases and data access to reflect the meaning of your data \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Building application frameworks that simplify life for programmers and project managers \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Setting reasonable and achievable goals for performance, availability, and security \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Designing for security at all levels, from strategy to code \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Identifying new opportunities created by context-driven design \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Pearson Education","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077494063344,"sku":"9780134022925","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780134022925_p0.jpg?v=1763641963","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780134022925","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}