AI Assistants in Requirements Engineering | Part 1
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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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Making “agiLE” Work
As more large enterprises are adopting agile practices organization-wide, they face unique challenges when compared to smaller organizations or individual […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Stable? Fragile? Agile! Attractive but reasonable
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 […]
Applying IREB RE practices in an agile environment
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 […]
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 […]
Agility and Obligation
Many clients believe in fixed price agreements with well-defined requirements specifications in order to control the outcome and costs of software development. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Agility and Obligation
Developing software is a complex task. Especially the interaction between client and contractor is very challenging because de facto the client cannot […]
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. […]
Requirements Engineering and Agile
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. […]
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’ […]
How agile can Requirements Engineers really be?
Agile remains a disputed approach. Despite the bold sounding claims of many articles on its proven ability to increase productivity and reduce costs, some […]
Product Owner in Scrum
Scrum is today the most discussed method of agile software engineering. The connection between requirements engineering and agile methods itself is a widely […]
Innovation Arena
Prioritization of requirements is an essential activity. Most important requirements shall be developed first, optimizing the return on investment. The weak […]
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