Book Reviews on Systems, Software, and Requirements
Book Reviews: Requirements
Discovery
| Author | Title | Date | Mainly For |
| Alexander & Beus-Dukic | Discovering Requirements | 2009 | Industry, Business, Students |
| Alexander & Stevens | Writing Better Requirements | 2002 | Industry, Business |
| David Gelperin | Understanding Requirements | 2017 | Industry |
| Robin Goldsmith | Discovering Real Business Requirements | 2004 | Industry, Business |
| Ellen Gottesdiener | Requirements by Collaboration | 2002 | Industry, Business |
| Anna Hart | Knowledge Acquisition | 1989 | Industry, Business |
| Hossenlopp & Hass | Unearthing Business Requirements | 2007 | Business |
| Alison Kidd | Knowledge Acquisition | 1989 | Ideas |
| Roxanne Miller | The Quest for Software Requirements | 2009 | Business |
| Gerry Weinberg | Exploring Requirements | 1989 | Ideas |
Book Reviews: Requirements Management
Book Reviews: Analysis
| Author | Title | Date | Mainly For |
| David Hay | Requirements Analysis (Zachman Framework) | 2002 | Business |
| Kilov & Baclawski | Business System Specifications | 2003 | Research |
| Frappier & Habrias | Software Specification Methods | 2001 | Research |
| Axel van Lamsweerde | Requirements Engineering (KAOS Method) | 2009 | Students, Lecturers |
| Lavi & Kudish | Systems Modeling & Requirements Specification using ECSAM | 2005 | Industry, Business |
| Leszek Maciaszek | Requirements Analysis & System Design | 2004 | Students |
Book Reviews: Agile Methods
| Author | Title | Date | Mainly For |
| Kent Beck | Extreme Programming | 1999 | Industry, Business |
| Beyer & Holtzblatt | Contextual Design | 1998 | Industry, Business |
| David Bohm | On Dialogue | 1996 | Ideas |
| Alistair Cockburn | Agile Software Development | 2002 | Industry, Business |
| Mike Cohn | User Stories Applied | 2004 | Industry, Business |
| Ellen Gottesdiener | Requirements by Collaboration | 2002 | Industry, Business |
| Ian Graham | RE and Rapid Development | 1998 | Industry, Business |
| Sandra Walsh | The OpenXP Solution | 2016 | Research |
Book Reviews: Action Research, Qualitative Research
| Author | Title | Date | Mainly For |
| Uwe Flick | Qualitative Research | 1998 | Research |
| John Heron | Co-operative Inquiry | 1996 | Ideas |
| Peter Reason | Handbook of Action Research | 2001 | Research |
| Donald Schön | Reflective Practitioner | 1983 | Ideas |
Book Reviews: Communicating, Writing, Graphics
| Author | Title | Date | Mainly For |
| Chris Alexander | Notes on the Synthesis of Form | 1964 | Ideas |
| Sven Birkerts | Gutenberg Elegies | 1994 | Ideas |
| Tony Buzan | The Mind Map Book | 2006 | Industry, Business |
| David Lewis | How to Get Your Message Across | 1997 | Ideas |
| Marshall McLuhan | The Medium is the Massage | 1967 | Ideas |
| Nicholas B. Oulton | Killer Presentations (PowerPoint) | 2007 | Industry, Business |
| Edward Tufte | Visual Explanations | 1997 | Ideas |
| Edward Tufte | Envisioning Information | 1990 | Ideas |
| Edward Tufte | Visual Display of Quantitative Information | 2001 | Ideas |
| Gerald Weinberg | Weinberg on Writing | 2006 | Industry, Business |
Book Reviews:
History & Philosophy of Science
| Author | Title | Date | Mainly For |
| Paul Feyerabend | Against Method | 1975 | Ideas |
| Thomas Kuhn | Structure of Scientific Revolutions | 1962 | Ideas |
| Michael Polanyi | Tacit Dimension | 1966 | Ideas |
| Karl Popper | Logic of Scientific Discovery | 1959 | Ideas |
| Stephen Toulmin | The Uses of Argument | 1958 | Ideas |
| Walter Vincenti | What Engineers Know and How They Know It | 1990 | Ideas |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | Philosophical Investigations | 1953 | Ideas |
Book Reviews:
Human Factors, User Interface
| Author | Title | Date | Mainly For |
| John Carroll | Making Use | 2000 | Ideas |
| Andy Crabtree | Designing Collaborative Systems | 2003 | Ideas |
| Mike Kuniavsky | Observing the User Experience | 2003 | Industry, Business |
| Søren Lauesen | User Interface Design | 2004 | Industry, Business |
| McGraw & Harbison | User-Centered Requirements | 1997 | Industry, Business |
| Sandom & Harvey | Human Factors for Engineers | 2004 | Industry, Business |
| Alistair Sutcliffe | User-Centred Requirements Engineering | 2002 | Research |
| Harold Thimbleby | Press On: Principles of Interaction Programming | 2007 | Industry, Students |
Book Reviews:
Mathematics, Statistics
| Author | Title | Date | Mainly For |
| Calvin Dytham | Choosing and Using Statistics | 2003 | Research |
| Jan Gullberg | Mathematics from Birth of Numbers | 2004 | Ideas |
| Katrina Maxwell | Statistics for Software Managers | 2002 | Industry, Business |
| Gyorgy Polya | How to Solve It | 1945 | Ideas |
| Råde & Westergren | Mathematics Handbook | 2004 | Industry, Business |
Book Reviews: Product Management
| Author | Title | Date | Mainly For |
| Alan Davis | Just Enough Requirements Management | 2005 | Industry, Business |
| Linda Gorchels | The Product Manager's Handbook | 1995 | Industry, Business |
| Ivy Hooks | Customer-Centered Products | 2000 | Industry, Business |
| Rick Levine et al | Cluetrain Manifesto | 2000 | Industry, Business |
| Tim Zaal | Integrated Design and Engineering: as a Business Improvement Process | 2009 | Industry |
Book Reviews: Project Management
Book Reviews: Scenarios, Use Cases, User Stories
| Author | Title | Date | Mainly For |
| Alexander & Maiden | Scenarios, Stories, Use Cases | 2004 | Industry, Business |
| John Carroll | Scenario-Based Design | 1995 | Industry, Business |
| Alistair Cockburn | Writing Effective Use Cases | 2001 | Industry, Business |
| Mike Cohn | User Stories Applied | 2004 | Industry, Business |
| David Harel | Come, Let's Play: Scenarios | 2003 | Research |
| Ivar Jacobson | Object-oriented Software Engineering | 1992 | Industry, Business |
| Kulak & Guiney | Use Cases: Requirements in Action | 2000 | Industry, Business |
| McGraw & Harbison | User-Centered Requirements | 1997 | Industry, Business |
| Ben Rinzler | Telling Stories: a Short Path to Writing Better Software Requirements | 2009 | Industry, Business |
| Roger Schank | Tell Me A Story | 1990 | Ideas |
| Bill Wiley | The Event Thread for Requirements | 2014 | Industry |
Book Reviews:
Software Engineering
Book Reviews: Systems Engineering
Book Reviews: Natural History
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| Richard Kerridge | Cold Blood: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ruth Padel | Darwin, A Life in Poems | ||||||||||||||||||
| Peter Forbes | Dazzled and Deceived: Camouflage and Mimicry | ||||||||||||||||||
| George Monbiot | Feral
| Jim Crace | Harvest
| Roger Deakin | Notes from Walnut Tree Farm
| William Fiennes | The Snow Geese
| Dave Goulson | A Sting in the Tale
| Jay Griffiths | Wild, An Elemental Journey
| Robert Macfarlane | The Wild Places
| Roger Deakin | Wildwood, A Journey Through Trees
| John Stewart Collis | The Worm Forgives the Plough
| Ian Alexander | The English Love Affair with Nature
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