| Leffingwell, Dean and Don Widrig, Managing Software RequirementsA Unified Approach. Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley, 2000. Valacich, Joseph S, Essentials of Systems Analysis and Design. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. Commerce Server 2000 Resource KitChapter 4, "Defining Project Goals and Requirements" (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/comm/comm2000/reskit/csrkch4.asp). Discusses several topics from this chapter, including gathering business requirements and analyzing current business processes. Microsoft Reference Architecture for Commerce: Version 2 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnrac/html/mracv2_ch03.asp). (Chapter 3: "Business Requirements and Design Model" contains methods for determining business requirements.) Unix Code Migration Guide: Chapter 3: "The Migration Process" (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnucmg/html/UCMGch03.asp). Contains useful information on analyzing the current application environment. Microsoft Solution Accelerator: The Envisioning Phase (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsolac/html/m03_envphase.asp). Written for an e-commerce application, but is very useful for almost any type of business application. Weigers, Karl E., Software Requirements. Cambridge, MA: Quantum Books, 1999. Using Visual StudioDeveloping for the Enterprise (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsentpro/html/veovrdevelopingforenterprise.asp). A series of articles detailing all of the steps in the system development life cycle. Brockman, Diane, "Lessons from the Mainframe Era," Microsoft SQL Server Professional. Pinnacle Publications, February 2000 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsqlpro2k/html/sql00b15.asp). Contains information about gathering business specifications. Dennis, Alan and Barbara Wixom, Systems Analysis and Design. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. |