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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 […]

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 […]

Mastering Business Requirements

From the community for the community „Question existing work methods and solutions and rethink them at the beginning of projects — it will never be so […]

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

On the Right Track

For quite some time, IREB has promoted a partner program for companies worldwide who value sound requirements engineering and align the qualifications of their […]

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]. […]

Sharing My Doubts on the Focus of Requirements

In my last commentary I promised to provide a justification for why I restricted my consideration of requirements to the desired system/product, and neglected […]

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 […]

The Business Case for Agile Business Analysis

Over the years, I have often been asked to ‘make the business case for agile Business Analysis’. Sometimes it comes up in a meeting with executives, as it did […]

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 […]

Making “agiLE” Work

As more large enterprises are adopting agile practices organization-wide, they face unique challenges when compared to smaller organizations or individual […]

Sharing My Doubts on Shall / Should / Will etc.

I doubt whether it is always useful to include the priority in the wording of a requirement. A requirement expresses a need that a future system is supposed to […]

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 […]

Sharing My Doubts on Acceptance Criteria

I doubt whether I understand what “acceptance criteria” are. I have no doubts how I interpret the term. In my interpretation, they have nearly nothing to do […]

Is requirements engineering still needed in agile development approaches?

When organizations come across agile approaches, they discover the following lines in the agile manifesto [1]: We have come to value: Individuals and […]

Agile Product Ownership

The key to product success is to discover and deliver the right product for the right customers—and to do it at the right time. That doesn’t change when you […]