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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’
  • Skills
  • Studies and Research
Requirements Engineering and Domain Knowledge
A study concerning the question of whether domain knowledge is rather conducive, or rather hindering, for a requirements engineer
  • Methods
  • Practice
Innovation Arena
An agile and collaborative prioritization technique
  • Methods
  • Practice
IT Requirements when Buying, not Making
Effective specifications to select off-the-shelf software
  • Methods
  • Studies and Research
Leveraging Creativity Techniques in Requirements Elicitation
A Literature Review
  • Studies and Research
Improving the Use of English in Requirements
Analysis, results, and recommendations
  • Methods
  • Practice
Modeling Requirements and Context as a means for Automated Requirements Validation
An Example from the Automation Industry
  • Practice
  • Opinions
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
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Tracing Change Requests
From Requirements to Code
  • Methods
Advance
Verification and Validation of System Requirements by Animation and Automated Formal Analysis.
  • Cross-discipline
Detecting Incoherent Requirements in Large Documents
Experiments and User Evaluation
  • Cross-discipline
To Brainstorm or Not to Brainstorm
Neuropsychological Insights on Creativity
  • Cross-discipline
  • Skills
NLP for Requirements Engineers, Part 1
How requirements engineers can benefit from applying the NLP communication techniques
  • Cross-discipline
  • Skills
NLP for Requirements Engineers, Part 2
How requirements engineers can benefit from applying the NLP communication techniques
  • Practice
Toward Better RE
The Main Thing is Keeping the Main Thing
the Main Thing
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Classical requirements and test analysis a discontinued model?
Endeavours to improve the situation are finally rewarded
  • Studies and Research
Requirements Reuse
Requirements Reuse with the PABRE Framework
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TORE
A Framework for Systematic Requirements Development in Information Systems.
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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.
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  • Studies and Research
How Requirements Engineering can benefit from crowds
Driving innovation with crowd-based techniques
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Open Up
How the ReqIF Standard for Requirements Exchange Disrupts the Tool Market.
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  • Cross-discipline
ReqInspector
An Approach for the Inspection of the Completeness of individual Software Requirements Specifications by Semantic Analysis of the Argument Structures
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Splitting Requirements at Scale
Strategies for building manageable requirements hierarchies in complex problem domains
  • Cross-discipline
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“.
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An “agile” lifecycle for requirements
When requirements and the product are elaborated concurrently
  • Cross-discipline
  • Practice
Conversation with an Artificial Intelligence
What does OpenAI’s ChatGPT say about RE?
  • Methods
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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
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Survival Kit for the RE Guy
Anecdotes from a Requirements Engineer in the Real World
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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?
  • Methods
  • Opinions
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
  • Methods
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Customized Agile RE Process
Agile Requirements Engineering Procedure Model using the RE Tool Jama.
  • Methods
  • Skills
Data Science – the expanding frontier for Business Analysts
Evaluating Business Analysts‘ role in the Data Driven Economy
  • Skills
  • Methods
Bridging communication gaps with a Feature Tree
How product manager and development team found a common language and understanding
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The Recover Approach
Reverse Modeling and Up-To-Date Evolution of Functional Requirements in Alignment with Tests
  • Opinions
  • Cross-discipline
A General Systems Thinking Perspective on the CPRE
This system is your system. This system is my system.
  • Practice
Applying IREB RE practices in an agile environment
Are the practices recommended by the IREB CPRE-FL syllabus still useful in agile projects?
  • Studies and Research
LELIE
An Intelligent Assistant for Improving Requirement Authoring
  • Practice
  • Opinions
Making “agiLE” Work
Agile in the Large Enterprise
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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
  • Practice
  • Studies and Research
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.
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KCycle: Knowledge-Based & Agile Software Quality Assurance
An approach for iterative and requirements-based quality assurance in DevOps
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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.
  • Studies and Research
Requirements Engineering in German Job Advertisements
A statistical analysis and trends from 2009 to 2015
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Rigorous Verification
A new approach for requirements validation and rigorous verification.
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The Context-Canvas
A new approach to accelerate the RE-process!
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Evolving and Improving the Requirements Approach to Big Data Projects
A Roadmap to Implementing Big Data Projects
  • Practice
  • Methods
Discover Quality Requirements with the Mini-QAW
A short and fun elicitation workshop for Agile teams and architects
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  • Opinions
Functional Requirements and their levels of granularity
What are the levels of granularity of functional requirements and why this is important
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Mobile RE
The Mobile Future of Requirements Engineering
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Readable requirements
Readable requirements are not a matter of course – or are they?
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Stable? Fragile? Agile! Attractive but reasonable
New opportunities for requirements engineers & challenges within the organization
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Cyber Security Requirements Engineering
Hands-on guidance for developing and managing security requirements
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Building in security instead of testing it in
Eliciting security requirements needs a different process
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REQM guidance matrix
A framework to drive requirements management
  • Methods
  • Practice
Requirements Elicitation in Modern Product Discovery
Classifying product techniques by requirements type
  • Cross-discipline
Requirements Engineering in Job Offers
Who works in RE and what competences do they need, particularly soft skills?
  • Studies and Research
Requirements Engineering in Research Projects: Food for Thought
Lessons learned from a European Framework Project
  • Skills
  • Cross-discipline
The importance of active listening in the role of a Business Analyst
How to improve the quality of communication
  • Practice
  • Opinions
Managing the Invisible
Ensuring Software Quality beyond Micromanagement
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  • Practice
Modeling Requirements with Constraints
Smart use of constraints leads to cleaner requirements that are easy to test
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Modeling Requirements with SysML
How modeling can be useful to better define and trace requirements
  • Studies and Research
RE in Agile Projects: Survey Results
Results of research project announced in a previous issue.
  • Studies and Research
Requirements Elicitation (ReqElic) in My Company
Preliminary Results of a Questionnaire
  • Opinions
The goal is to solve the problem
Some thoughts on problems and goals in the context of requirements engineering
  • Cross-discipline
  • Skills
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
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Agility and Obligation
Part 1: Why Fixed Price Projects Fail
  • Skills
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
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Is there something missing?
Using verbs’ valency to improve requirements’ quality
  • Studies and Research
Poor requirements?
Welcome outsourcing!
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When the rubber hits the road
Improving requirements quality by effort estimates
  • Practice
  • Opinions
Is requirements engineering still needed in agile development approaches?
When every new iteration can violate previously satisfied requirements
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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
  • Practice
  • Cross-discipline
Mission Possible
Concept for the successful handling of integral NFRs in Scaled Agile Environments.
  • Practice
  • Studies and Research
Project Value Delivered
The True Measure of Requirements Quality.
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How agile can Requirements Engineers really be?
My experiences from the Telecoms industry.
  • Practice
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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?
  • Practice
Agility and Obligation
Part 2: The Art of Assigning Software Development
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The Genius Toddler Challenge
How to create awareness for some of the difficulties requirements engineers face
  • Studies and Research
  • Practice
What is the Relevance of Requirements Engineering Research to Practitioners?
Preliminary Results from an Ongoing Study
  • Methods
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A key technique
Delegation of requirement verification. A key technique for more mature requirements management.
  • Methods
Discovering System Requirements through SysML
An application of the IREB Handbook of Requirements Modeling
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Opportunities & Approaches
Re-Use of Requirements via Libraries:
Opportunities & Approaches
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Product Owner in Scrum
State of the discussion: Requirements Engineering and Product Owner in Scrum
  • Practice
  • Cross-discipline
Requirements under construction
Agreed, unambiguous and based on inventions
  • Studies and Research
Requirements Engineering Workshop in Mozambique
An experience report from the IREB Academy Program in Africa
  • Practice
  • Opinions
Agile Product Ownership
9 Essentials for Product Success
  • Practice
  • Cross-discipline
Biased Toddlers
How bias will affect even the simplest of specifications
  • Opinions
  • Skills
Integrating Program Management and Systems Engineering
  • Methods
Think Like a Scientist
Using Hypothesis Testing and Metrics to Drive Requirements Elicitation
  • Studies and Research
  • Skills
Gender Studies
What do we learn from Gender Studies for Requirements Engineering
  • Methods
  • Cross-discipline
How Will It Work?
The Future How Viewpoint.
  • Cross-discipline
  • Methods
Integrating Business Events into your Agile Framework
How you can use the natural partitioning of business events to flexibly synchronise your agile development.
  • Practice
Requirements Engineering and Agile
Paying attention to requirements in an agile work environment
  • Practice
  • Opinions
On the right track
Requirements Engineering at Dutch Railways
  • Opinions
Sharing My Doubts on Shall / Should / Will etc.
When shall does not need to be must
  • Practice
Translating Exam Questions
No Double Dutch! [An article of the Inside IREB series]
  • Studies and Research
Building the bridge
Building the bridge between experience and research: The future Research Section of the RE Magazine
  • Practice
  • Methods
RE for Testers
Why Testers should have a closer look into Requirements Engineering
  • Opinions
Sharing My Doubts on Acceptance Criteria
Do you know what acceptance criteria are?
  • Opinions
Sharing My Doubts on Goals and Requirements
Goals are intended, Requirements are imposed
  • Opinions
Sharing My Doubts on the Focus of Requirements
Requirements and where to put them
  • Skills
  • Cross-discipline
What makes Women Better BAs
What makes an excellent BA and are women more suited to the role?
  • Practice
  • Opinions
Mastering Business Requirements
Insights for 13 crucial challenges
  • Studies and Research
RE in Agile Projects: a Survey
Has RE adapted itself to the challenges of Agile methods?
Title Topic Author Date Reading time

Learning from history: The case of Software Requirements Engineering

Practice Methods
58 minutes

Requirements Engineering and Domain Knowledge

Skills Studies and Research
41 minutes

Innovation Arena

Methods Practice
32 minutes

IT Requirements when Buying, not Making

Methods Practice
31 minutes

Leveraging Creativity Techniques in Requirements Elicitation

Methods Studies and Research
30 minutes

Improving the Use of English in Requirements

Studies and Research
29 minutes

Modeling Requirements and Context as a means for Automated Requirements Validation

Methods Practice
27 minutes

The Business Case for Agile Business Analysis

Practice Opinions
27 minutes

Tracing Change Requests

Methods
26 minutes

Advance

Methods
24 minutes

Detecting Incoherent Requirements in Large Documents

Cross-discipline
24 minutes

To Brainstorm or Not to Brainstorm

Cross-discipline
24 minutes

NLP for Requirements Engineers, Part 1

Cross-discipline Skills
23 minutes

NLP for Requirements Engineers, Part 2

Cross-discipline Skills
23 minutes

Toward Better RE

Practice
23 minutes

Classical requirements and test analysis a discontinued model?

Methods Skills
22 minutes

Requirements Reuse

Studies and Research
22 minutes

TORE

Methods
22 minutes

Automated Quality Assurance

Methods
21 minutes

How Requirements Engineering can benefit from crowds

Methods Studies and Research
21 minutes

Open Up

Practice
21 minutes

ReqInspector

Methods Cross-discipline
21 minutes

Splitting Requirements at Scale

Methods Practice
21 minutes

What does it mean?

Cross-discipline
21 minutes

An “agile” lifecycle for requirements

Practice Methods
20 minutes

Conversation with an Artificial Intelligence

Cross-discipline Practice
20 minutes

Inputs to requirements engineering in agile projects

Methods Practice
19 minutes

Survival Kit for the RE Guy

Skills
19 minutes

A Finite State Machine Model for Requirements Engineering

Methods
18 minutes

Challenges in the elicitation and determination of precise requirements from animal stakeholders

Methods Opinions
18 minutes

Customized Agile RE Process

Methods Practice
18 minutes

Data Science – the expanding frontier for Business Analysts

Methods Skills
18 minutes

Bridging communication gaps with a Feature Tree

Skills Methods
18 minutes

The Recover Approach

Methods
18 minutes

A General Systems Thinking Perspective on the CPRE

Opinions Cross-discipline
17 minutes

Applying IREB RE practices in an agile environment

Practice
17 minutes

LELIE

Studies and Research
17 minutes

Making “agiLE” Work

Practice Opinions
17 minutes

The Business Analysis Center of Excellence

Skills
17 minutes

Why Your Agile Organization Needs a High-Performing Requirements Engineering Competency

Practice Studies and Research
17 minutes

KCycle: Knowledge-Based & Agile Software Quality Assurance

Methods
16 minutes

Product Management

Practice
16 minutes

Requirements Engineering in German Job Advertisements

Studies and Research
16 minutes

Rigorous Verification

Methods
16 minutes

The Context-Canvas

Methods
16 minutes

Evolving and Improving the Requirements Approach to Big Data Projects

Practice
15 minutes

Discover Quality Requirements with the Mini-QAW

Practice Methods
15 minutes

Functional Requirements and their levels of granularity

Methods Opinions
15 minutes

Mobile RE

Methods
15 minutes

Readable requirements

Practice Methods
15 minutes

Stable? Fragile? Agile! Attractive but reasonable

Skills
15 minutes

Cyber Security Requirements Engineering

Practice Methods
14 minutes

Building in security instead of testing it in

Practice
14 minutes

REQM guidance matrix

Methods
14 minutes

Requirements Elicitation in Modern Product Discovery

Methods Practice
14 minutes

Requirements Engineering in Job Offers

Cross-discipline
14 minutes

Requirements Engineering in Research Projects: Food for Thought

Studies and Research
14 minutes

The importance of active listening in the role of a Business Analyst

Skills Cross-discipline
14 minutes

Managing the Invisible

Practice Opinions
13 minutes

Modeling Requirements with Constraints

Methods Practice
13 minutes

Modeling Requirements with SysML

Methods
13 minutes

RE in Agile Projects: Survey Results

Studies and Research
13 minutes

Requirements Elicitation (ReqElic) in My Company

Studies and Research
13 minutes

The goal is to solve the problem

Opinions
13 minutes

What is a Useful Perspective in Considering Requirements Engineering Relative to Systems Engineering?

Cross-discipline Skills
13 minutes

Agility and Obligation

Practice
12 minutes

Five Questions

Skills
12 minutes

Is there something missing?

Methods
12 minutes

Poor requirements?

Studies and Research
12 minutes

When the rubber hits the road

Methods Practice
12 minutes

Is requirements engineering still needed in agile development approaches?

Practice Opinions
11 minutes

Catching the worm

Methods
11 minutes

Mission Possible

Practice Cross-discipline
11 minutes

Project Value Delivered

Practice Studies and Research
11 minutes

How agile can Requirements Engineers really be?

Practice
11 minutes

The Potential of User Tests for Requirements Engineering

Practice Methods
11 minutes

Agility and Obligation

Practice
10 minutes

The Genius Toddler Challenge

Methods Skills
10 minutes

What is the Relevance of Requirements Engineering Research to Practitioners?

Studies and Research Practice
10 minutes

A key technique

Methods Practice
9 minutes

Discovering System Requirements through SysML

Methods
9 minutes

Opportunities & Approaches

Methods
9 minutes

Product Owner in Scrum

Practice
9 minutes

Requirements under construction

Practice Cross-discipline
9 minutes

Requirements Engineering Workshop in Mozambique

Studies and Research
8 minutes

Agile Product Ownership

Practice Opinions
7 minutes

Biased Toddlers

Practice Cross-discipline
7 minutes

Integrating Program Management and Systems Engineering

Opinions Skills
7 minutes

Think Like a Scientist

Methods
7 minutes

Gender Studies

Studies and Research Skills
7 minutes

How Will It Work?

Methods Cross-discipline
6 minutes

Integrating Business Events into your Agile Framework

Cross-discipline Methods
6 minutes

Requirements Engineering and Agile

Practice
6 minutes

On the right track

Practice Opinions
5 minutes

Sharing My Doubts on Shall / Should / Will etc.

Opinions
5 minutes

Translating Exam Questions

Practice
5 minutes

Building the bridge

Studies and Research
4 minutes

Interview with John Mylopoulos

Opinions
4 minutes

RE for Testers

Practice Methods
4 minutes

Sharing My Doubts on Acceptance Criteria

Opinions
3 minutes

Sharing My Doubts on Goals and Requirements

Opinions
3 minutes

Sharing My Doubts on the Focus of Requirements

Opinions
3 minutes

What makes Women Better BAs

Skills Cross-discipline
3 minutes

Mastering Business Requirements

Practice Opinions
2 minutes

RE in Agile Projects: a Survey

Studies and Research
1 minute