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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

When the rubber hits the road

Introduction There are a number of quality criteria for requirements. IREB Syllabus [1] groups them into three aspects: content, documentation and agreement. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Managing the Invisible

Software quality consists of many different aspects. Some of these aspects, like functional correctness or learnability, can be directly perceived and thus […]

Modeling Requirements and Context as a means for Automated Requirements Validation

When designing an automation plant the control software for the entire plant is typically designed after the physical architecture of the automation plant and […]

Evolving and Improving the Requirements Approach to Big Data Projects

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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’ […]

Readable requirements

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

Translating Exam Questions

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 […]

Open Up

Requirements Management and Requirements Engineering are fairly well established. In Germany, the Automotive industry has been on the forefront of innovation […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]