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Requirements Elicitation in Modern Product Discovery

If you are working on products, you have realized product management handles requirements in a different way. When a business analyst or a product owner is […]

Mission Possible

Initial situation We just can't get rid of them in certain areas: non-functional requirements (NFR) - quality requirements (QR) according to IREB. Whether in […]

A General Systems Thinking Perspective on the CPRE

Adding the concept of observer to the definition of the system in the CPRE can extend, simplify and justify the discussions about points of view, shared […]

Learning from history: The case of Software Requirements Engineering

This article describes initial conclusions of our research into how and why the requirements engineer’s role has changed over the years, with the longer-term […]

Functional Requirements and their levels of granularity

The level of granularity is the greater or lesser extent in the description of expected software behaviour in a functional specification. It defines how […]

Managing the Invisible

Software quality consists of many different aspects. Some of these aspects, like functional correctness or learnability, can be directly perceived and thus […]

IT Requirements when Buying, not Making

Procuring off-the-shelf or COTS software is often the only feasible route to access new facilities, due to the reduced time, cost, risk and organisational […]

Applying IREB RE practices in an agile environment

Which of the many techniques learned by a certified requirements engineer according to the CPRE-FL syllabus are still helpful in agile projects? Which have to […]

The Business Analysis Center of Excellence

Usually, the disciplines of business analysis and requirements engineering start somewhat hidden inside companies: A customer service specialist supports the […]

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 […]

Product Management

This article provides an overview on product management and our experiences with introducing, improving and deploying the role of a product manager in […]

A key technique

This article is the second in a series of articles on requirements engineering published by Crescendo Technologies, following "This is not a requirement (of […]

Product Owner in Scrum

Scrum is today the most discussed method of agile software engineering. The connection between requirements engineering and agile methods itself is a widely […]

Toward Better RE

Caveat: I do not pretend to have all of the answers – I only wish to share what I’ve learned. RE Magazine has graciously provided an opportunity for me to […]