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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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]