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Why Your Agile Organization Needs a High-Performing Requirements Engineering Competency
How Product Owners (POs), Business Analysts and Requirements Engineers Use Agile Requirements Engineering (RE) to optimize the work of the team and maximize the value delivered to stakeholders.

Written by Howard Podeswa
22. March 2023 · 17 minutes read

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Classical requirements and test analysis a discontinued model?
Endeavours to improve the situation are finally rewarded

Written by Thorsten von Ramsch
25. January 2023 · 22 minutes read

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Mission Possible
Concept for the successful handling of integral NFRs in Scaled Agile Environments.

Written by Rainer Grau
14. December 2022 · 11 minutes read

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A General Systems Thinking Perspective on the CPRE
This system is your system. This system is my system.

Written by Gil Regev Alain Wegmann Olivier Hayard
14. September 2022 · 17 minutes read · 2 Comments

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Integrating Business Events into your Agile Framework
How you can use the natural partitioning of business events to flexibly synchronise your agile development.

Written by Suzanne Robertson James Robertson
10. February 2022 · 6 minutes read

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Discovering System Requirements through SysML
An application of the IREB Handbook of Requirements Modeling

Written by Gildas Premel-Cabic
15. September 2021 · 9 minutes read · 3 Comments

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Inputs to requirements engineering in agile projects
How applying Lean Startup, Design Thinking, and others, impact the task of modeling requirements

Written by Nuno Santos Nuno Ferreira Ricardo J. Machado
30. June 2021 · 19 minutes read

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The Potential of User Tests for Requirements Engineering
It seems evident to test designs or prototypes of software with end-users. But what about requirements?

Written by Katarzyna Małecka
20. April 2021 · 11 minutes read

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Requirements Engineering and Domain Knowledge
A study concerning the question of whether domain knowledge is rather conducive, or rather hindering, for a requirements engineer

Written by Till-J. Faßold
25. February 2021 · 41 minutes read

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Requirements Engineering in Job Offers
Who works in RE and what competences do they need, particularly soft skills?

Written by Andrea Herrmann Maya Daneva Chong Wang Nelly Condori-Fernandez
16. September 2020 · 14 minutes read · 6 Comments

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Interview with John Mylopoulos
Views of a real RE pioneer

Interview done by Luisa Mich
14. May 2020 · 4 minutes read · 4 Comments

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How Will It Work?
The Future How Viewpoint.

Written by Suzanne Robertson James Robertson
19. March 2020 · 6 minutes read

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What is the Relevance of Requirements Engineering Research to Practitioners?
Preliminary Results from an Ongoing Study

Written by Daniel Méndez Xavier Franch Andreas Vogelsang
14. January 2020 · 10 minutes read

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Detecting Incoherent Requirements in Large Documents
Experiments and User Evaluation

Written by Patrick Saint-Dizier
10. December 2019 · 24 minutes read · 4 Comments

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Mastering Business Requirements
Insights for 13 crucial challenges

Written by David Gilbert Dirk Röder
05. November 2019 · 2 minutes read · 4 Comments

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Learning from history: The case of Software Requirements Engineering
‘A large elephant is in the room but we are not able or brave or willing enough to point at it’

Written by Rana Siadati Paul Wernick Vito Veneziano
25. September 2019 · 58 minutes read

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ReqInspector
An Approach for the Inspection of the Completeness of individual Software Requirements Specifications by Semantic Analysis of the Argument Structures

Written by Andreas Maier Simon Darting
27. June 2019 · 21 minutes read

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Data Science – the expanding frontier for Business Analysts
Evaluating Business Analysts‘ role in the Data Driven Economy

Written by Priyank Arora
09. May 2019 · 18 minutes read · 2 Comments

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Is there something missing?
Using verbs’ valency to improve requirements’ quality

Written by Kristina Schöne Andreas Günther Margaux Sagne
28. March 2019 · 12 minutes read

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When the rubber hits the road
Improving requirements quality by effort estimates

Written by Grigory Grin
27. February 2019 · 12 minutes read

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Challenges in the elicitation and determination of precise requirements from animal stakeholders
How to use requirements gathering techniques to determine product requirements from non-verbal subjects

Written by Jason Hansen
18. January 2019 · 18 minutes read

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On the right track
Requirements Engineering at Dutch Railways

Written by Hans van Loenhoud
18. December 2018 · 5 minutes read

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Discover Quality Requirements with the Mini-QAW
A short and fun elicitation workshop for Agile teams and architects

Written by Thijmen de Gooijer Michael Keeling Will Chaparro
08. November 2018 · 15 minutes read

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What is a Useful Perspective in Considering Requirements Engineering Relative to Systems Engineering?
RE is one discipline in the mix of disciplines that SE orchestrates. Not understanding the role of RE properly can hold practitioners back

Written by Michael Jastram Cary Bryczek
12. September 2017 · 13 minutes read

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To Brainstorm or Not to Brainstorm
Neuropsychological Insights on Creativity

Written by Inge Kress Anja Schwarz
12. September 2017 · 24 minutes read

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The goal is to solve the problem
Some thoughts on problems and goals in the context of requirements engineering

Written by Hans van Loenhoud Kim Lauenroth Patrick Steiger
12. September 2017 · 13 minutes read · 9 Comments

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Sharing My Doubts on the Focus of Requirements
Requirements and where to put them

Written by Karol Frühauf
12. September 2017 · 3 minutes read · 2 Comments

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REQM guidance matrix
A framework to drive requirements management

Written by Fabrício Laguna
12. September 2017 · 14 minutes read · 2 Comments

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Integrating Program Management and Systems Engineering

Written by Eric Rebentisch, Written by Eric Rebentisch, Reviewed by Dr. Ralph R. Young
12. September 2017 · 7 minutes read

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Tracing Change Requests
From Requirements to Code

Written by Harry Sneed Birgit Demuth
21. February 2017 · 26 minutes read

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The Business Case for Agile Business Analysis
What is Agile Business Analysis, and 10 reasons why it’s worth developing the competency within your agile organization

Written by Howard Podeswa
21. February 2017 · 27 minutes read · 6 Comments

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Sharing My Doubts on Goals and Requirements
Goals are intended, Requirements are imposed

Written by Karol Frühauf
21. February 2017 · 3 minutes read · 3 Comments

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Making “agiLE” Work
Agile in the Large Enterprise

Written by Joy Beatty Candase Hokanson
21. February 2017 · 17 minutes read · 2 Comments

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Functional Requirements and their levels of granularity
What are the levels of granularity of functional requirements and why this is important

Written by Guilherme Siqueira Simões Carlos Eduardo Vazquez
21. February 2017 · 15 minutes read · 4 Comments

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Biased Toddlers
How bias will affect even the simplest of specifications

Written by Manon Penning
21. February 2017 · 7 minutes read

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The Context-Canvas
A new approach to accelerate the RE-process!

Written by Oliver Stypa Sebastian Schlaus
18. October 2016 · 16 minutes read

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Sharing My Doubts on Shall / Should / Will etc.
When shall does not need to be must

Written by Karol Frühauf
18. October 2016 · 5 minutes read · 9 Comments

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Requirements Engineering in German Job Advertisements
A statistical analysis and trends from 2009 to 2015

Written by Andrea Herrmann Marcel Weber
18. October 2016 · 16 minutes read · 4 Comments

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Modeling Requirements with Constraints
Smart use of constraints leads to cleaner requirements that are easy to test

Written by Michael Jastram Andreas Kara
18. October 2016 · 13 minutes read

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KCycle: Knowledge-Based & Agile Software Quality Assurance
An approach for iterative and requirements-based quality assurance in DevOps

Written by Albert Tort
18. October 2016 · 16 minutes read · 4 Comments

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Improving the Use of English in Requirements
Analysis, results, and recommendations

Written by Marie Garnier Patrick Saint-Dizier
18. October 2016 · 29 minutes read

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Sharing My Doubts on Acceptance Criteria
Do you know what acceptance criteria are?

Written by Karol Frühauf
15. June 2016 · 3 minutes read · 4 Comments

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NLP for Requirements Engineers, Part 2
How requirements engineers can benefit from applying the NLP communication techniques

Written by Corrine Thomas Albena Georgieva
15. June 2016 · 23 minutes read

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Modeling Requirements and Context as a means for Automated Requirements Validation
An Example from the Automation Industry

Written by Bastian Tenbergen Andreas Vogelsang Thorsten Weyer Andreas Froese Jan Christoph Wehrstedt Veronika Brandstetter
15. June 2016 · 27 minutes read

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Managing the Invisible
Ensuring Software Quality beyond Micromanagement

Written by Gunnar Harde
15. June 2016 · 13 minutes read · 1 Comment

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Leveraging Creativity Techniques in Requirements Elicitation
A Literature Review

Written by Áldrin Jaramillo Franco Saïd Assar
15. June 2016 · 30 minutes read

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How Requirements Engineering can benefit from crowds
Driving innovation with crowd-based techniques

Written by Eduard C. Groen Matthias Koch
15. June 2016 · 21 minutes read

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What makes Women Better BAs
What makes an excellent BA and are women more suited to the role?

Written by Sandra Leek
29. February 2016 · 3 minutes read · 1 Comment

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The Genius Toddler Challenge
How to create awareness for some of the difficulties requirements engineers face

Written by Manon Penning
29. February 2016 · 10 minutes read

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  • Studies and Research
Requirements Engineering in Research Projects: Food for Thought
Lessons learned from a European Framework Project

Written by Dr. Christine Grimm Onur Görkem Özcan
29. February 2016 · 14 minutes read

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RE in Agile Projects: Survey Results
Results of research project announced in a previous issue.

Written by Gareth Rogers
29. February 2016 · 13 minutes read · 2 Comments

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NLP for Requirements Engineers, Part 1
How requirements engineers can benefit from applying the NLP communication techniques

Written by Corrine Thomas Albena Georgieva
29. February 2016 · 23 minutes read · 2 Comments

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Evolving and Improving the Requirements Approach to Big Data Projects
A Roadmap to Implementing Big Data Projects

Written by Ravishankar Narayanan
29. February 2016 · 15 minutes read

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Survival Kit for the RE Guy
Anecdotes from a Requirements Engineer in the Real World

Written by Deepti Savio
29. October 2015 · 19 minutes read · 2 Comments

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Stable? Fragile? Agile! Attractive but reasonable
New opportunities for requirements engineers & challenges within the organization

Written by Chris Rupp Ulrike Friedrich
29. October 2015 · 15 minutes read

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Requirements Engineering Workshop in Mozambique
An experience report from the IREB Academy Program in Africa

Written by Lars Baumann Henrik Baumann
29. October 2015 · 8 minutes read

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IT Requirements when Buying, not Making
Effective specifications to select off-the-shelf software

Written by Martin Tate
29. October 2015 · 31 minutes read

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Cyber Security Requirements Engineering
Hands-on guidance for developing and managing security requirements

Written by Christof Ebert
29. October 2015 · 14 minutes read

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An “agile” lifecycle for requirements
When requirements and the product are elaborated concurrently

Written by Rodolphe Arthaud
29. October 2015 · 20 minutes read · 4 Comments

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The Business Analysis Center of Excellence
How to build a strong foundation for business analysis and requirements engineering inside a company

Written by Christoph Wolf
30. July 2015 · 17 minutes read · 1 Comment

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Requirements under construction
Agreed, unambiguous and based on inventions

Written by Chris Rupp Kristina Schöne
30. July 2015 · 9 minutes read

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Requirements Elicitation (ReqElic) in My Company
Preliminary Results of a Questionnaire

Written by Luisa Mich Victoria Sakhnini Daniel Berry
30. July 2015 · 13 minutes read

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Is requirements engineering still needed in agile development approaches?
When every new iteration can violate previously satisfied requirements

Written by Rodolphe Arthaud
30. July 2015 · 11 minutes read · 1 Comment

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Applying IREB RE practices in an agile environment
Are the practices recommended by the IREB CPRE-FL syllabus still useful in agile projects?

Written by Stefan Meier
30. July 2015 · 17 minutes read

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A Finite State Machine Model for Requirements Engineering
How can the standard UML FSM be improved to better serve the requirements engineer?

Written by Ariè Avnur
30. July 2015 · 18 minutes read

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RE in Agile Projects: a Survey
Has RE adapted itself to the challenges of Agile methods?

Written by Gareth Rogers
30. April 2015 · 1 minute read · 2 Comments

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Modeling Requirements with SysML
How modeling can be useful to better define and trace requirements

Written by Pascal Roques
30. April 2015 · 13 minutes read · 10 Comments

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Mobile RE
The Mobile Future of Requirements Engineering

Written by Ursula Meseberg Tanja Weiß
30. April 2015 · 15 minutes read · 1 Comment

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LELIE
An Intelligent Assistant for Improving Requirement Authoring

Written by Patrick Saint-Dizier Juyeon Kang
30. April 2015 · 17 minutes read

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Building in security instead of testing it in
Eliciting security requirements needs a different process

Written by Edward van Deursen Jan Jaap Cannegieter
30. April 2015 · 14 minutes read · 2 Comments

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Agility and Obligation
Part 2: The Art of Assigning Software Development

Written by Gunnar Harde
30. April 2015 · 10 minutes read

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The Recover Approach
Reverse Modeling and Up-To-Date Evolution of Functional Requirements in Alignment with Tests

Written by Albert Tort
29. January 2015 · 18 minutes read

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Requirements Engineering and Agile
Paying attention to requirements in an agile work environment

Written by Sven van der Zee
29. January 2015 · 6 minutes read · 2 Comments

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Bridging communication gaps with a Feature Tree
How product manager and development team found a common language and understanding

Written by Ina Paschen Emmerich Fuchs
29. January 2015 · 18 minutes read · 2 Comments

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Catching the worm
How to capture the functional size of an application in early project phases and how to create a reliable cost estimate

Written by Carl Friedrich Kress
29. January 2015 · 11 minutes read

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Agility and Obligation
Part 1: Why Fixed Price Projects Fail

Written by Gunnar Harde
29. January 2015 · 12 minutes read · 7 Comments

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Agile Product Ownership
9 Essentials for Product Success

Written by Ellen Gottesdiener
29. January 2015 · 7 minutes read · 1 Comment

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Translating Exam Questions
No Double Dutch! [An article of the Inside IREB series]

Written by Hans van Loenhoud
30. October 2014 · 5 minutes read

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TORE
A Framework for Systematic Requirements Development in Information Systems.

Written by Dr. Sebastian Adam Norman Riegel Dr. Joerg Doerr
30. October 2014 · 22 minutes read

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Readable requirements
Readable requirements are not a matter of course – or are they?

Written by Frank Rabeler
30. October 2014 · 15 minutes read

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Poor requirements?
Welcome outsourcing!

Written by Johan Zandhuis
30. October 2014 · 12 minutes read · 2 Comments

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Customized Agile RE Process
Agile Requirements Engineering Procedure Model using the RE Tool Jama.

Written by Ulf Ackermann Dirk Fritsch
30. October 2014 · 18 minutes read

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Advance
Verification and Validation of System Requirements by Animation and Automated Formal Analysis.

Written by Brett Bicknell Karim Kanso
30. October 2014 · 24 minutes read

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Rigorous Verification
A new approach for requirements validation and rigorous verification.

Written by Brett Bicknell Karim Kanso Daniel McLeod
30. July 2014 · 16 minutes read

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How agile can Requirements Engineers really be?
My experiences from the Telecoms industry.

Written by Gareth Rogers
30. July 2014 · 11 minutes read · 1 Comment

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Project Value Delivered
The True Measure of Requirements Quality.

Written by Joy Beatty Candase Hokanson
30. July 2014 · 11 minutes read · 4 Comments

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Product Management
Effective product management is the critical success factor to make a product successful – across its life-cycle and across markets.

Written by Christof Ebert
30. July 2014 · 16 minutes read · 2 Comments

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Open Up
How the ReqIF Standard for Requirements Exchange Disrupts the Tool Market.

Written by Michael Jastram
30. July 2014 · 21 minutes read · 4 Comments

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Automated Quality Assurance
Automated Quality Assurance of Software Requirements. The following contribution deals with the automated assurance of software requirements quality.

Written by Harry Sneed
30. July 2014 · 21 minutes read · 1 Comment

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Gender Studies
What do we learn from Gender Studies for Requirements Engineering

Written by Maria-Therese Teichmann Eva Gebetsroither Corinna Unterfurtner Alexandra Kreuzeder
30. April 2014 · 7 minutes read

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Toward Better RE
The Main Thing is Keeping the Main Thing
the Main Thing

Written by Dr. Ralph R. Young
30. April 2014 · 23 minutes read · 1 Comment

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Product Owner in Scrum
State of the discussion: Requirements Engineering and Product Owner in Scrum

Written by Alexander Rachmann Jesko Schneider Frank Engel
30. April 2014 · 9 minutes read · 3 Comments

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Opportunities & Approaches
Re-Use of Requirements via Libraries:
Opportunities & Approaches

Written by Jens Schirpenbach
30. April 2014 · 9 minutes read · 2 Comments

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Building the bridge
Building the bridge between experience and research: The future Research Section of the RE Magazine

Written by IREB
30. April 2014 · 4 minutes read

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A key technique
Delegation of requirement verification. A key technique for more mature requirements management.

Written by Joseph Aracic
30. April 2014 · 9 minutes read

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What does it mean?
What does it mean to say „requirement“? An inquiry into the abilities of the human mind and the meaning of the word „requirement“.

Written by Kim Lauenroth
30. January 2014 · 21 minutes read · 1 Comment

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Think Like a Scientist
Using Hypothesis Testing and Metrics to Drive Requirements Elicitation

Written by Mats Wessberg
30. January 2014 · 7 minutes read · 1 Comment

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Requirements Reuse
Requirements Reuse with the PABRE Framework

Written by Cristina Palomares Carme Quer Xavier Franch
30. January 2014 · 22 minutes read

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RE for Testers
Why Testers should have a closer look into Requirements Engineering

Written by Erik van Veenendaal
30. January 2014 · 4 minutes read

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Innovation Arena
An agile and collaborative prioritization technique

Written by Rainer Grau
30. January 2014 · 32 minutes read

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Five Questions
Transitioning successfully from the IT side to business – and 5 questions you should ask yourself before moving from the tech side to Business Analysis

Written by Howard Podeswa
30. January 2014 · 12 minutes read · 3 Comments

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