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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

ReqInspector

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

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 […]

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

Biased Toddlers

“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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Product Management

This article provides an overview on product management and our experiences with introducing, improving and deploying the role of a product manager in […]