Requirements Engineering as Operative Strategy Work | Part 1
Most strategies do not fail in formulation. They fail in translation, somewhere between the boardroom and the next project decision. This first part of our series makes the case …
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Requirements for cross-cutting qualities
Assuring cross-cutting quality is a challenge that has become increasingly important as systems grow more complex. This also impacts how Requirements Engineering (RE) approaches …
Beyond Participation
In Requirements Engineering, early stakeholder involvement is often seen as the best practice. But what if that’s putting the cart before the horse? This article proposes a …
Interview with John Mylopoulos
Preface of the Editor in Chief Perhaps it is like carrying coals to Newcastle when we briefly introduce John Mylopoulos in this preface to the following interview. Luisa Mich, …
Discover Quality Requirements with the Mini-QAW
Good quality requirements help software engineers make the right architectural design decisions. Unfortunately, collecting requirements is not always easy. The Quality Attribute …
The goal is to solve the problem
A requirement is "a condition or capability needed by a user to solve a problem or to achieve an objective" (AKA a goal), see the CPRE Glossary [Glinz 2014]. Thinking in terms of …
Making “agiLE” Work
As more large enterprises are adopting agile practices organization-wide, they face unique challenges when compared to smaller organizations or individual projects. While most …
Sharing My Doubts on Goals and Requirements
A popular discussion in requirements engineering courses is about the difference between goals and requirements. One view is that goals are requirements on the highest level of …
The Context-Canvas
Digitalization is becoming increasingly prevalent in manufacturing industries. Co-working mechanical engineers and computer scientists are aware of the challenges posed by a …
TORE
When engineering requirements, many requirements professionals are challenged not only by the question of how to elicit or specify requirements, but additionally by knowing which …
Requirements Reuse
In this paper we present the Pattern-Based Requirements Elicitation (PABRE) framework, which proposes the use of Software Requirement Patterns (SRP) as a means to capture and …