The importance of active listening in the role of a Business Analyst
The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) defines business analysis as “the practice of enabling change in the context of an enterprise by […]
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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 […]
Conversation with an Artificial Intelligence
This last decade has seen several breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI), in particular machine learning, with groundbreaking applications in all […]
A General Systems Thinking Perspective on the CPRE
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 […]
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 […]
The Potential of User Tests for Requirements Engineering
The article covers a topic of software tests as a requirement source, as techniques to investigate requirements and confirm compliance of the final product […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mastering Business Requirements
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
Cyber Security Requirements Engineering
Sophisticated functionality and ever-increasing perfection of embedded and distributed IT systems have been made possible through an increasing amount of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Requirements under construction
Eliciting requirements is a key skill in requirements engineering. A requirements engineer is supposed elicit requirements in a way that is both unbiased and […]
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 […]
Innovation Arena
Prioritization of requirements is an essential activity. Most important requirements shall be developed first, optimizing the return on investment. The weak […]
Think Like a Scientist
All organizations strive to meet their envisioned goals and strategic objectives, creating greater business value for their stakeholders. While not all […]
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