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AI Assistants in Requirements Engineering | Part 2

Welcome to the second part of our exploration of AI assistants in Requirements Engineering. In Part 1, we discussed the art of effective prompting, introduced […]

AI Assistants in Requirements Engineering | Part 1

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly critical role in various industries, and Requirements Engineering (RE) is no exception. Large Language […]

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

The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) defines business analysis as “the practice of enabling change in the context of an enterprise by […]

Conversation with an Artificial Intelligence

This last decade has seen several breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI), in particular machine learning, with groundbreaking applications in all […]

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 […]

Integrating Business Events into your Agile Framework

Business Event partitioning has been around for a long time and has helped Business Analysts to improve their requirements discovery and to develop better […]

Requirements Engineering in Job Offers

How is Requirements Engineering (RE) perceived and staffed in practice? What is the job title of the position doing RE? What tasks does this position include? […]

How Will It Work?

In a previous article Business Analysis Viewpoints [1] we discussed a number of ways of looking at systems. The intention of these viewpoints is to make it […]

Detecting Incoherent Requirements in Large Documents

The different protagonists involved in requirement production is a source of mismatches, inconsistencies, incoherence and redundancies. Indeed, stakeholders, […]

ReqInspector

During the process of requirements engineering, incompletely specified requirements require iterative follow-up discussions with stakeholders to complete and […]

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

Many organizations take their product development seriously. Those that do usually also practice requirements engineering (RE), amongst a host of other […]

To Brainstorm or Not to Brainstorm

"Creativity is the essential skillset for the future" [Batey]. In a world that is increasingly dominated by smart ecosystems, like autonomous cars able to warn […]

Biased Toddlers

“Biased? No, as a requirements engineer I strive to be impartial and unbiased”, right? But really being impartial and unbiased is extremely difficult! That is, […]

NLP for Requirements Engineers, Part 2

Unquestionably, being a good communicator helps in achieving greater impact and efficiency in the requirements engineering line of work. NLP comes from the […]

NLP for Requirements Engineers, Part 1

Unquestionably, being a good communicator helps in achieving greater impact and efficiency in the requirements engineering line of work. NLP comes from the […]

What makes Women Better BAs

“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” (Charlotte Whitton, Canadian feminist and […]

Requirements under construction

Eliciting requirements is a key skill in requirements engineering. A requirements engineer is supposed elicit requirements in a way that is both unbiased and […]

What does it mean?

Developing a software system is a challenging task for all participants including stakeholders, requirements engineers, project managers, architects, […]