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This book is a must-have for all IT professionals facing software development problems on a daily basis. If you are a systems analyst or requirements engineer it will provide an essential, practical guide from the task of identifying the problem to making the descriptions needed to resolve it.It will help you: decompose complex problems into simpler subproblems and see how the subproblems fit together; and build up a repertoire of simple, clear and easily applicable problem classes which you can access and reuse, drawing on the experience associated with each class.Features: numerous real-world example problems are analyzed, giving you insight into how to recognize and structure your own problems in practice; a mixture of large and small problems is presented, showing the stripped down essence of problem classes and discussing different aspects of each problem; problem frames are independent of any particular development method, so they can be easily applied in your own situation; and appendices summarizing the descriptive languages and notations; plus a glossary of terminology.