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Human Factors in Requirements Engineering - Viller, Bowers, Rodden (Correct)
....of rework can be reduced to a minimum, along with related savings in cost and time to completion of the system. There is a broadening consensus regarding the nature of RE as a social, as well as technical, process involving a variety of stakeholders engaging in diverse activities throughout [3, 5, 9, 16]. Many of the specific details of the process followed for a given product will often depend upon the nature of the product itself, the application domain, similarities and differences to existing products developed by the organization, and so on. When these variations are combined with an often ....
.... on Human Error and Systems Development 2 Organizational safety Empirical evidence already exists to demonstrate that organizational issues are important in RE [4, 11] There also exist a number of sociological studies of organizations which have much to say on safe and reliable operations [16, 25]. Reason [18] uses the term latent organizational failures to describe the concept that failures of an organizational nature can remain dormant until triggered by unsafe acts (active failures) in combination with inadequate defences, thus leading to an accident. Perrow [15] classifies systems ....
Quintas, P., Ed., Social Dimensions of System Engineering: People, Processes, Policies and Software Development. Ellis Horwood, London, 1993.
Moving Out From the Control Room: Ethnography in System.. - Hughes, King, Rodden.. (1994) (33 citations) (Correct)
....means in this connection. The influences have come from a number of different directions, including the sociology of technology, the sociology of industry, the sociology of organisations among them. Not all of these have a direct interest in sociology as an input to system design. See Quintas [22] for a selection of papers. The main virtue of ethnography is its ability to make visible the real world sociality of a setting. 1 As a mode of social research it is concerned to produce detailed descriptions of the workaday activities of social actors within specific contexts [20,18] It is ....
Quintas. P. (1993) ed. Social Dimensions of Systems Engineering: People, Processes, Policies and Software Development, New York, Ellis Harwood.
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