10 Books to Help You Write Requirements Like a Pro
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In our learning journey, now we are at a stage where we want to create a project plan. We will use agile project management and design thinking to ensure the requirements that we gather during the Identify stage are converted into the epics, requirements, user stories, tasks and can be seen as a release roadmap.
As a business owner, you understand the importance of well-written requirements that developers can understand to produce good software. Writing requirements for successful projects requires an understanding of many key methodologies, including agile and design thinking.
In this article, we curated 10 books that will be useful for you team to write requirements like a pro!
1. User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn
This book offers an agile approach to user story development and covers sprint planning, release planning and many other topics related to agile development.
2. Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwaber
This book introduces the fundamentals of Scrum, the most widely used agile method for software development, and covers topics such as iterations, sabbaticals, roles, and artifacts.
3. Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise by Dean Leffingwell
This book provides an overview of the principles, practices, and processes for successful agile requirements management.
4. Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum by Mike Cohn
This book provides an introduction to agile software development, how to establish proper metrics for success, how to implement working agreements and user stories, and how to measure progress and eliminate distractions.
5. Design Thinking: Integrating Innovation, Customer Experience and Brand Value by Peter Skillman
This book offers practical strategies and insights to help organizations integrate innovative ideas into the complete customer experience while developing brand value.
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6. Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation: What They Can't Teach You at Business or Design School by Idris Mootee
This book explains creative strategic innovation, customer experience, design thinking, and visual thinking in detail and provides actionable insights and tools to help organizations develop successful innovative products and services.)
7. Design Thinking: The Course by David Gerst
This book provides an overview of the design thinking methodology and covers topics such as customer insights, ideation and prototyping.
8. Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation by Idris Mootee
This book explains how to apply design thinking to formulate customer experiences and generate new ideas for sustainable innovations.
9. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
This book provides an overview of the Lean Startup methodology, focuses on rapid customer feedback and running experiments to quickly learn customer needs and desires, and provides guidance on how to build successful businesses through disciplined and data-driven decision-making.
10. Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products That Customers Love by Roman Pichler
This book provides an overview of the Scrum methodology, and covers topics such as customer collaboration, product discovery, and product ownership. It also explains how to identify and implement the right product features, and how to measure success.
Conclusion
As the world becomes more digital, software development is becoming increasingly essential for businesses. By adopting agile methodology and design thinking, we can ensure that we are building the right products for our customers. Not only does this improve the quality of the products we create, but it also helps us deliver them faster.
If you are looking for a resource that will help you build better software and satisfy your customers, this book is an excellent place to start.
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