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agile development: class of "lightweight" software development methodologies that emphasize people over processes and feature a series of short development increments.
antipattern: a situation involving an identifiable and non-unique pattern of negative behavior. The solution to an antipattern is called a refactoring.
assertion: a relation that is true at that instant in the execution of the program.
brainstorming: requirements elicitation technique that uses informal sessions with customers and other stakeholders to generate overarching goals for the systems.
card sorting: requirements elicitation technique that has stakeholders complete a set of cards that include key information about functionality. The requirements engineer then groups the information logically or functionally.
client: See customer.
COCOMO: a tool that estimates software project effort and duration based on a set of parameters that characterize the project. COCOMO is an acronym for COnstructive COst MOdel.
customer: the class (consisting of one or more persons) who is commissioning the construction of the system. Also called client or sponsor.
design constraint requirement: a requirement related to standards compliance and hardware limitations.
designer as apprentice: a requirements discovery technique in which the requirements engineer "looks over the shoulder" of the customers to enable him to learn enough about the customer's work to understand their needs.
discounted payback period: the payback period determined on discounted cash flows rather than undiscounted cash flows.
divergent goals: an antipattern in which two or more major players in a situation are working against each other.
domain analysis: any general approach to assessing the...

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