Customer-Centered Product Development: Creating Successful P

This is a guide to eliminating the waste of time, money and effort resulting from poor product development. It provides product definition requirements needed at the start of any product development process. Table of Contents: Requirements - structure for success; why Johnny can't write requirements - cultural, educational and management influences of requirements definition; the view from the top - steps to creating and managing good requirements; creating a shared vision - scoping the project up front; one day in the life of a product - using operational concepts to improve requirement quality; collision course - identifying and managing interfaces; be careful what you ask for - writing good requirements; theirs but to reason why - the value of recording rationale; everything in its place - levels, allocating and tracing requirements; but will it work? - thinking ahead to verification; a needle in a haystack - formatting requirements; drawing a line in the sand - preparing to baseline requirements; not all requirements are created equal - the case for prioritizing requirements; keeping sane - automating requirement management; death, taxes and requirement change - managing change; cap'n are we there yet? - measuring requirement quality; it can happen on your watch - making changes in an organization's requirement definition process.