Apply best practices for capturing, analyzing, and implementing software requirements through visual models-and deliver better results for your business. The authors-experts in eliciting and visualizing requirements-walk you through a simple but comprehensive language of visual models that has been used on hundreds of real-world, large-scale projects. Build your fluency with core concepts-and gain essential, scenario-based context and implementation advice-as you progress through each chapter.

• Transcend the limitations of text-based requirements data using visual models that more rigorously identify, capture, and validate requirements
• Get real-world guidance on best ways to use visual models-how and when, and ways to combine them for best project outcomes
• Practice the book's concepts as you work through chapters
• Change your focus from writing a good requirement to ensuring a complete system

Anthony Chen is a requirements architect who has developed a requirements training program used internationally, and helped pioneer key requirements-modeling concepts.

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part I: An Introduction to Models
  • Chapter 1: Introduction to RML
  • Chapter 2: Model Categorization
• Part II: Objectives Models
  • Chapter 3: Business Objectives Model
  • Chapter 4: Objective Chain
  • Chapter 5: Key Performance Indicator Model
  • Chapter 6: Feature Tree
  • Chapter 7: Requirements Mapping Matrix
• Part III: People Models
  • Chapter 8: Org Chart
  • Chapter 9: Process Flow
  • Chapter 10: Use Case
  • Chapter 11: Roles and Permissions Matrix
• Part IV: Systems Models
  • Chapter 12: Ecosystem Map
  • Chapter 13: System Flow
  • Chapter 14: User Interface Flow
  • Chapter 15: Display-Action-Response
  • Chapter 16: Decision Table
  • Chapter 17: Decision Tree
  • Chapter 18: System Interface Table
• Part V: Data Models
  • Chapter 19: Business Data Diagram
  • Chapter 20: Data Flow Diagram
  • Chapter 21: Data Dictionary
  • Chapter 22: State Table
  • Chapter 23: State Diagram
  • Chapter 24: Report Table
• Part VI: Models in the Big Picture
  • Chapter 25: Selecting Models for a Project
  • Chapter 26: Using Models Together
• Quick Lookup Models Grids
• General Guidelines for Models
• Exercise Answers
• Glossary