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Expanding Empirical Studies to Better Understand Requirements-driven Collaboration
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@MISC{Marczak_expandingempirical,
author = {Sabrina Marczak and Irum Inayat and Siti Salwah Salim},
title = {Expanding Empirical Studies to Better Understand Requirements-driven Collaboration},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Abstract. Requirements engineering involves collaboration among project members. Ineffective collaboration may result in project failure. To study the collaboration of those who need to coordinate work due to interdependencies in requirements, in our previous work we have introduced the concept of requirements-driven collaboration as the collaboration that occurs during requirements engineering and have defined a framework to guide its study. The framework is based on social network theory and provides techniques to study diverse aspects that underlie collaboration driven by requirements. Two case studies were conducted to apply the framework and to reveal empirical insights about requirements-driven collaboration. The investigated projects were globally distributed, of medium-size, and used the waterfall model to guide the development lifecycle. In this paper we posit that additional case studies of projects with distinct characteristics can help us to better understand requirements-driven collaboration. We introduce our intent to study requirements-driven collaboration in agile projects as an example of our plan to further knowledge on the topic. Broader insights can be used by researchers and practitioners to reason about how tools and processes can be improved to better support collaboration throughout the development life-cycle.
Keyphrases
requirements-driven collaboration empirical study better understand requirements-driven collaboration requirement engineering project failure development lifecycle agile project case study development life-cycle diverse aspect social network theory distinct characteristic project member waterfall model previous work ineffective collaboration support collaboration investigated project empirical insight additional case study
