Using AI to discover more innovative requirements from documents
This article demonstrates how to increase the novelty of innovation opportunities generated by AI without losing their usefulness. Drawing on established models of creativity, the …
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Why Your Agile Organization Needs a High-Performing Requirements Engineering Competency
In this article, I’m going to answer a question that I’ve been asked from people with stakes in requirements engineering (RE) and its sister competency, business analysis - …
Requirements Engineering and Domain Knowledge
1 Introduction The IREB [1] Foundation Level courses emphasize the fact that a requirements engineer is expected to familiarize himself with the application domain of the …
What is the Relevance of Requirements Engineering Research to Practitioners?
Introduction Requirements Engineering (RE) has been the subject of promising research for the last four decades, supported by a strong and vibrant research community that …
Improving the Use of English in Requirements
For most international industries, English is the main language of communication in technical documents. Among them, requirements are specifically designed to be easy to read and …
Requirements Engineering in German Job Advertisements
How is requirements engineering (RE) perceived and staffed in practice? What is the job title of the position doing RE? Which further tasks does this position include? How many …
How Requirements Engineering can benefit from crowds
Requirements are usually elicited, analyzed, and validated using techniques that are strongly based on the co-presence of the persons involved. These techniques can quickly become …
Leveraging Creativity Techniques in Requirements Elicitation
In recent years, Creativity-based Approaches for Requirements Elicitation (CAREs) have appeared as one promising trend to tackle the requirements elicitation problem. …
RE in Agile Projects: Survey Results
Though Requirements Engineering (RE) and Agile are sometimes perceived to be conflicting approaches to software development, the recent emergence of the term Agile RE suggests …
Requirements Engineering in Research Projects: Food for Thought
This article addresses practitioners working in the specific setting of publicly funded, international research projects where multiple organizations and public institutions join …
Requirements Engineering Workshop in Mozambique
In January 2015 we got a request to support an educational program in Maputo – Mozambique. The Maputo region is part of a country suffering from a long lasting civil war and the …
Requirements Elicitation (ReqElic) in My Company
Have you ever wondered what is the optimal size for a group of business or requirements analysts that is doing creative requirements elicitation? Have you developed an intuition …
LELIE
When writing or revising a set of requirements, or any technical document, it is particularly challenging to make sure that texts read easily and are unambiguous for any domain …
RE in Agile Projects: a Survey
Is Requirements Engineering alive and well within your Agile projects, or have zealous consultants and scrum masters consigned your hard-earned RE skills to the rubbish heap along …
Poor requirements?
Controlled outsourcing within system development requires a proper and well understood set of requirements at the start of a project. Subsequently this set of requirements must be …
Project Value Delivered
The quest to measure the quality of requirements through requirements metrics has been around almost as long as requirements themselves. Researchers have found that good and clear …
Building the bridge
By the Editor – IREB GmbH: The Requirements Engineering Magazine aims at providing you with a profound insight into the practice of professional RE as well as being a platform for …
Gender Studies
Are there many women Requirements Engineers? It is almost impossible to get reliable numbers on that question. Studies like [CAN12] don’t give any statistics, but present concrete …
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 …