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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 […]

AI Assistants in Requirements Engineering | Part 2

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Learning from history: The case of Software Requirements Engineering

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 […]

ReqInspector

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

Data Science – the expanding frontier for Business Analysts

Prelude As Business Analysts our profession is constantly evolving over time. As our roles mature, our experience, expertise, and skills gradually move us from […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Making “agiLE” Work

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

Modeling Requirements with Constraints

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 […]

The Context-Canvas

Digitalization is becoming increasingly prevalent in manufacturing industries. Co-working mechanical engineers and computer scientists are aware of the […]

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 […]

NLP for Requirements Engineers, Part 2

Unquestionably, being a good communicator helps in achieving greater impact and efficiency in the requirements engineering line of work. NLP comes from the […]

NLP for Requirements Engineers, Part 1

Unquestionably, being a good communicator helps in achieving greater impact and efficiency in the requirements engineering line of work. NLP comes from the […]

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 […]

IT Requirements when Buying, not Making

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 […]

Survival Kit for the RE Guy

In the context of that ubiquitous, all-situations-encompassing real world, the Requirements Engineer might move in and out of several concurrent projects, work […]

Building in security instead of testing it in

There are a numerous techniques for eliciting and documenting functional requirements. We all know interviews, workshops, questionnaires and studying […]

Mobile RE

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Bridging communication gaps with a Feature Tree

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 […]

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. […]

Advance

The emergent discipline of using formal modelling and analysis to support industrial scale requirements engineering has matured in recent years [Woodcock et […]

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’ […]

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 […]

Readable requirements

At the Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems, Word templates have been created for entering requirements using the “Information Mapping®” method. The templates […]

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 […]

Rigorous Verification

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 […]

A key technique

This article is the second in a series of articles on requirements engineering published by Crescendo Technologies, following "This is not a requirement (of […]

Opportunities & Approaches

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 […]

Toward Better RE

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 […]

Innovation Arena

Prioritization of requirements is an essential activity. Most important requirements shall be developed first, optimizing the return on investment. The weak […]