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Why and when must requirement engineers pay attention to the GDPR? | Part 1

Data, and in particular personal data, is the new gold, and with it comes the need for appropriate protection. The European ‘General Data Protection […]

Integrating User-Centric Design in Business Analysis

Discover how user-centric design (UCD) can transform business analysis to create more intuitive, efficient, and user-friendly solutions. This article delves […]

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 […]

Splitting Requirements at Scale

Analysis means breaking down large problems into smaller, more manageable ones. We, as BAs, understand intuitively that this is what we do and that how well we […]

Classical requirements and test analysis a discontinued model?

In times of increasing "agilization", the question arises as to whether classic requirements engineering and test analysis are still relevant at all. Since the […]

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 […]

Discovering System Requirements through SysML

For Business Analysts/Requirement Engineers/System Analysts, the greatest innovation brought by the Systems Modeling Language (SysML) is the introduction of 1) […]

Inputs to requirements engineering in agile projects

Practices from the Agile software development (ASD) spectrum are adopted by enterprises worldwide for project and product development. Either adopting […]

The Potential of User Tests for Requirements Engineering

The article covers a topic of software tests as a requirement source, as techniques to investigate requirements and confirm compliance of the final product […]

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 […]

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 […]

ReqInspector

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

Data Science – the expanding frontier for Business Analysts

Prelude As Business Analysts our profession is constantly evolving over time. As our roles mature, our experience, expertise, and skills gradually move us from […]

Is there something missing?

Introduction With the exponential number of international projects and the rising complexity of the products being developed, sharing a common language among […]

When the rubber hits the road

Introduction There are a number of quality criteria for requirements. IREB Syllabus [1] groups them into three aspects: content, documentation and agreement. […]

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

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen. Orhan Pamuk

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 […]

REQM guidance matrix

Requirements Management (REQM) is described as a key area for several disciplines: Enterprise Architecture, Business Analysis, Software Engineering and Process […]

Tracing Change Requests

One of the biggest challenges in software maintenance is the need to trace incoming change requests to the code affected by those requests. This need is […]

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 […]

KCycle: Knowledge-Based & Agile Software Quality Assurance

Agile paradigms and DevOps approaches have changed software engineering processes by focusing on iterativity, communication and collaboration between different […]

Modeling Requirements with Constraints

Modeling requirements is not really new, but there are many ways to do it. We discovered constraints as a powerful concept that allowed us to create concise […]

The Context-Canvas

Digitalization is becoming increasingly prevalent in manufacturing industries. Co-working mechanical engineers and computer scientists are aware of the […]

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 […]

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 […]

Modeling Requirements and Context as a means for Automated Requirements Validation

When designing an automation plant the control software for the entire plant is typically designed after the physical architecture of the automation plant and […]

The Genius Toddler Challenge

“How hard can it be?” is a question posed by virtually everybody at one point or another regarding a line of work they are currently not involved in. We all […]

An “agile” lifecycle for requirements

In a previous article [1], we claimed that at least in certain circumstances, for certain types of systems, the requirements management discipline is still […]

Cyber Security Requirements Engineering

Sophisticated functionality and ever-increasing perfection of embedded and distributed IT systems have been made possible through an increasing amount of […]

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 […]

A Finite State Machine Model for Requirements Engineering

Requirement models ‎are used to clarify and improve requirements consistency, unambiguity, correctness and completeness. The finite state machine (FSM) model […]

Mobile RE

This year we’re definitely headed for the future. Do you remember the 1985 movie Back to the Future? Marty McFly lands in Hill Valley, California on October […]

Modeling Requirements with SysML

In this paper, we will show how the SysML modeling language can be useful to complement the requirements process, i.e. to better define and trace requirements. […]

Catching the worm

In early project phases it is one of the main objectives to evaluate whether or not it is reasonable to conduct the project from an economic standpoint. […]

Bridging communication gaps with a Feature Tree

We are in the machine industry. A company was willing to change the working mode of the software development department as part of a huge Research and […]

The Recover Approach

The alignment between requirements and tests and the need for explicit requirements specifications to better support knowledge management in software projects […]

Advance

The emergent discipline of using formal modelling and analysis to support industrial scale requirements engineering has matured in recent years [Woodcock et […]

Customized Agile RE Process

‘Classic upfront Requirements Engineering before the start of a project costs too much time and money!’ …nowadays, phrases like this reflect most customers’ […]

Readable requirements

At the Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems, Word templates have been created for entering requirements using the “Information Mapping®” method. The templates […]

TORE

When engineering requirements, many requirements professionals are challenged not only by the question of how to elicit or specify requirements, but […]

Automated Quality Assurance

There are many ways to check the content of the software requirements manually – inspections, reviews, walkthroughs, etc. However the attempt to automate the […]

Rigorous Verification

ADVANCE is a European-wide initiative between industry and academia to lead the future development of high-quality embedded systems in a more cost-effective […]

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 […]

Opportunities & Approaches

Motivation for Requirement Re-Use: When you compare the re-use of requirements with the re-use of designs you may get the impression that re-use of […]

Innovation Arena

Prioritization of requirements is an essential activity. Most important requirements shall be developed first, optimizing the return on investment. The weak […]

Think Like a Scientist

All organizations strive to meet their envisioned goals and strategic objectives, creating greater business value for their stakeholders. While not all […]