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 […]
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly critical role in various industries, and Requirements Engineering (RE) is no exception. Large Language […]
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 […]
The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) defines business analysis as “the practice of enabling change in the context of an enterprise by […]
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 […]
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 […]
This last decade has seen several breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI), in particular machine learning, with groundbreaking applications in all […]
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, […]
In times of increasing "agilization", the question arises as to whether classic requirements engineering and test analysis are still relevant at all. Since the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Business Event partitioning has been around for a long time and has helped Business Analysts to improve their requirements discovery and to develop better […]
For Business Analysts/Requirement Engineers/System Analysts, the greatest innovation brought by the Systems Modeling Language (SysML) is the introduction of 1) […]
Practices from the Agile software development (ASD) spectrum are adopted by enterprises worldwide for project and product development. Either adopting […]
The article covers a topic of software tests as a requirement source, as techniques to investigate requirements and confirm compliance of the final product […]
1 Introduction The IREB [1] Foundation Level courses emphasize the fact that a requirements engineer is expected to familiarize himself with the application […]
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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
Introduction Requirements Engineering (RE) has been the subject of promising research for the last four decades, supported by a strong and vibrant research […]
The different protagonists involved in requirement production is a source of mismatches, inconsistencies, incoherence and redundancies. Indeed, stakeholders, […]
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 […]
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 […]
During the process of requirements engineering, incompletely specified requirements require iterative follow-up discussions with stakeholders to complete and […]
Prelude As Business Analysts our profession is constantly evolving over time. As our roles mature, our experience, expertise, and skills gradually move us from […]
Introduction With the exponential number of international projects and the rising complexity of the products being developed, sharing a common language among […]
Introduction There are a number of quality criteria for requirements. IREB Syllabus [1] groups them into three aspects: content, documentation and agreement. […]
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For quite some time, IREB has promoted a partner program for companies worldwide who value sound requirements engineering and align the qualifications of their […]
Good quality requirements help software engineers make the right architectural design decisions. Unfortunately, collecting requirements is not always easy. The […]
Requirements Management (REQM) is described as a key area for several disciplines: Enterprise Architecture, Business Analysis, Software Engineering and Process […]
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 […]
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]. […]
"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 […]
Many organizations take their product development seriously. Those that do usually also practice requirements engineering (RE), amongst a host of other […]
“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, […]
The level of granularity is the greater or lesser extent in the description of expected software behaviour in a functional specification. It defines how […]
As more large enterprises are adopting agile practices organization-wide, they face unique challenges when compared to smaller organizations or individual […]
A popular discussion in requirements engineering courses is about the difference between goals and requirements. One view is that goals are requirements on the […]
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 […]
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 […]
For most international industries, English is the main language of communication in technical documents. Among them, requirements are specifically designed to […]
Agile paradigms and DevOps approaches have changed software engineering processes by focusing on iterativity, communication and collaboration between different […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Digitalization is becoming increasingly prevalent in manufacturing industries. Co-working mechanical engineers and computer scientists are aware of the […]
Requirements are usually elicited, analyzed, and validated using techniques that are strongly based on the co-presence of the persons involved. These […]
In recent years, Creativity-based Approaches for Requirements Elicitation (CAREs) have appeared as one promising trend to tackle the requirements elicitation […]
Software quality consists of many different aspects. Some of these aspects, like functional correctness or learnability, can be directly perceived and thus […]
When designing an automation plant the control software for the entire plant is typically designed after the physical architecture of the automation plant and […]
Unquestionably, being a good communicator helps in achieving greater impact and efficiency in the requirements engineering line of work. NLP comes from the […]
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 […]
The Big Data technology and services market is expected to grow at a 26.4% compound annual growth to $41.5 billion in 2018 (source: IDC). Getting involved in a […]
Unquestionably, being a good communicator helps in achieving greater impact and efficiency in the requirements engineering line of work. NLP comes from the […]
Though Requirements Engineering (RE) and Agile are sometimes perceived to be conflicting approaches to software development, the recent emergence of the term […]
This article addresses practitioners working in the specific setting of publicly funded, international research projects where multiple organizations and […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
In a previous article [1], we claimed that at least in certain circumstances, for certain types of systems, the requirements management discipline is still […]
Sophisticated functionality and ever-increasing perfection of embedded and distributed IT systems have been made possible through an increasing amount of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Classical process models have come closer to agile values in IT-projects over the last years, and thus a new project reality has been created. This new reality […]
In the context of that ubiquitous, all-situations-encompassing real world, the Requirements Engineer might move in and out of several concurrent projects, work […]
Requirement models are used to clarify and improve requirements consistency, unambiguity, correctness and completeness. The finite state machine (FSM) model […]
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 […]
When organizations come across agile approaches, they discover the following lines in the agile manifesto [1]: We have come to value: Individuals and […]
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 […]
Eliciting requirements is a key skill in requirements engineering. A requirements engineer is supposed elicit requirements in a way that is both unbiased and […]
Usually, the disciplines of business analysis and requirements engineering start somewhat hidden inside companies: A customer service specialist supports the […]
Many clients believe in fixed price agreements with well-defined requirements specifications in order to control the outcome and costs of software development. […]
There are a numerous techniques for eliciting and documenting functional requirements. We all know interviews, workshops, questionnaires and studying […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Is Requirements Engineering alive and well within your Agile projects, or have zealous consultants and scrum masters consigned your hard-earned RE skills to […]
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 […]
Developing software is a complex task. Especially the interaction between client and contractor is very challenging because de facto the client cannot […]
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. […]
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 […]
These days a growing number of people are becoming interested in agile product development. Many people work in an agile environment, or would like to do so. […]
The alignment between requirements and tests and the need for explicit requirements specifications to better support knowledge management in software projects […]
The emergent discipline of using formal modelling and analysis to support industrial scale requirements engineering has matured in recent years [Woodcock et […]
‘Classic upfront Requirements Engineering before the start of a project costs too much time and money!’ …nowadays, phrases like this reflect most customers’ […]
Controlled outsourcing within system development requires a proper and well understood set of requirements at the start of a project. Subsequently this set of […]
At the Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems, Word templates have been created for entering requirements using the “Information Mapping®” method. The templates […]
When engineering requirements, many requirements professionals are challenged not only by the question of how to elicit or specify requirements, but […]
Many Dutch students struggle with the IREB CPRE FL exam, which, in the Netherlands and Begium, was available in English only. They commented that the exam does […]
There are many ways to check the content of the software requirements manually – inspections, reviews, walkthroughs, etc. However the attempt to automate the […]
Requirements Management and Requirements Engineering are fairly well established. In Germany, the Automotive industry has been on the forefront of innovation […]
This article provides an overview on product management and our experiences with introducing, improving and deploying the role of a product manager in […]
The quest to measure the quality of requirements through requirements metrics has been around almost as long as requirements themselves. Researchers have found […]
Agile remains a disputed approach. Despite the bold sounding claims of many articles on its proven ability to increase productivity and reduce costs, some […]
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 […]
This article is the second in a series of articles on requirements engineering published by Crescendo Technologies, following "This is not a requirement (of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Scrum is today the most discussed method of agile software engineering. The connection between requirements engineering and agile methods itself is a widely […]
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 […]
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, […]
I was recently speaking to a large group of BAs about some of the lessons learned picked up over my years in the profession. I had a fairly large sample – a […]
Prioritization of requirements is an essential activity. Most important requirements shall be developed first, optimizing the return on investment. The weak […]
Testers use requirements as the basis of test cases, review them for testability, and often participate in general requirement reviews or inspections. […]
All organizations strive to meet their envisioned goals and strategic objectives, creating greater business value for their stakeholders. While not all […]
Developing a software system is a challenging task for all participants including stakeholders, requirements engineers, project managers, architects, […]
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