Blogosphere: Best of Blogs

Bittner, Kurt, and Ian Spence. 2003. Use Case Modeling . Boston: Addison-Wesley.

Our colleagues' thorough and masterful treatise of use cases.

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

For an alternative, and often complementary, view to that of Bittner and Spence's.

IEEE Std. 830-1998. 1998. Recommended Practice for Software Requirements Specifications . New York: Software Engineering Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society.

Leffingwell, Dean, and D. Widrig. 1999. Managing Software Requirements: A Unified Approach . Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Grounded in years of practical experience with numerous projects in a wide range of application, this book extends the requirements workflow with practical tips, examples, case studies, and war stories.