Ian Alexander

Ian Alexander volunteers on his local nature reserve, and likes walking and photographing insects and flowers in their natural habitats. He is the author of a history, The English Love Affair with Nature (YouCaxton, 2015), five chapters of the nature guide West London Wildlife (Supernova Books, 2022), and a humorous novel, English Reserve (YouCaxton, 2025).

During his career, Ian Alexander was an independent consultant, trainer and author specializing in Requirements Engineering, often using DOORS / DXL as the platform. He worked with organizations in transportation, telecommunications, aerospace, government and public service in the UK and around the world, on both implementation projects and process support. He was chairman of the BCS Requirements Engineering Specialist Group. He is a Chartered Engineer. He was the lead author of Writing Better Requirements (Addison-Wesley, 2002), Scenarios, Stories, Use Cases (Wiley, 2004), and Discovering Requirements (Wiley, 2009). There are many free resources for use in discovering and organizing requirements on his scenarioplus website.