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Many book reviews can be found on Ian Alexander's site at http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~iany/reviews/reviews.htm

Most books can be found at either Amazon Books or AddALL Used and Out of Print books, search at http://www.addall.com/Used/

Most articles can be found on the Web


General

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Alexander, Ian F. & Stevens, Richard: Writing Better Requirements, Addison-Wesley 2002

Conklin, E. Jeffery & Weil, William: Wicked Problems: Naming the Pain in Organizations
Available for download at http://www.leanconstruction.org/pdf/wicked.pdf

Gabb, Andrew P. Requirements Denial – Examining The Excuses, Conference Proceedings of SETE99 1999

Gause, Donald C. & Weinberg, Gerald M.: Exploring Requirements, Dorset House Publishing 1989

Hooks, Ivy F. & Farry, Kristin A. Customer-Centered Products, AMACOM American Management Association 2001

Kovitz, Benjamin L.: Practical Software Requirements, Manning 1999

Leffingwell, Dean & Widrig, Don:  Managing Software Requirements, Addison- Wesley 2000

Robertson, Suzanne & Robertson, James: Mastering the Requirements Process, Addison-Wesley 1999

Sommerville, Ian & Kotonya, Gerald:  Requirements Engineering: Processes and Techniques, John Wiley 1998

Wiegers, Karl E. Software Requirements, Microsoft Press 1999

Young, Ralph R. Effective Requirements Practices, Addison- Wesley 2001



Mining

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Constantine, Larry L. & Lockwood, Lucy A. D. Software for Use Addison-Wesley 1999

Gottesdiener, Ellen Requirements by Collaboration Addison-Wesley 2002

Jackson, Michael Problem Frames Addison-Wesley 2001

McQuarrie, Edward F. The Market Research Toolbox Sage Publications 1996

Morgan, Tony Business Rules and Information Systems: Aligning IT with Business Goals Addison-Wesley 2002

Robertson, James Eureka! Why Analysts Should Invent Requirements, IEEE Software July/August 2002. Available for download at www.volere.co.uk/inventing.pdf


Managing & Negotiating

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Block, Robert: The Politics of Projects,Yourdon Press 1983

Briggs, Robert O., & Gruenbacher, Paul:  Easy WinWin: Managing Complexity in Requirements Negotiation with GSS,  Proceedings of the 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2002

Kaner, Sam Lind, Lenny Toldi, Catherine Fisk, Sarah Berger, Duane: Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, New Society Publications 1996


Detailing

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Adolph, Steve & Bramble, Paul: Patterns for Effective Use Cases, Addison-Wesley 2003

Berry, Daniel M., Daudjee, Khuzaima, Dong, Jing, Nelson, Maria Augusta, Nelson, Torsten User's Manual as a Requirements Specification TR CS 2001-17 University of Waterloo

Business Rules Group:  Defining Business Rules - What Are They Really?  July, 2000.  Available for download at http://www.businessrulesgroup.org/first_paper/br01c0.htm

Cockburn, Alistair:  Writing Effective Use Cases, Addison-Wesley 2001

Gelperin, David:  An assortment of technical papers on detailing



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