Requirements Value Chains: Stakeholder Management and Requirements Engineering in Software Ecosystems

[Context motivation] Market-oriented development involves the collaboration of many stakeholders that do not necessarily directly interact with a given development project but still influence its results. These stakeholders are part of the requirements value chain for the concerned software product. [Question/problem] Understanding the structure and functioning of requirements value chains is essential for effective stakeholder management and requirements engineering within the software product’s ecosystem. [Principal ideas/results] The paper explores and exemplifies fundamental concepts that are needed to characterize and reason about requirements value chains. [Contribution] This characterization is used to describe the relevant knowledge landscape and to suggest research avenues for understanding the principles needed for managing requirements-based stakeholder collaboration. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14192-8_7 Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-43243 Accepted Version Originally published at: Fricker, S (2010). Requirements value chains: stakeholder management and requirements engineering in software ecosystems. In: REFSQ 2010: 16th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, Essen, Germany, 30 June 2010 2 July 2010, 60-66. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14192-8_7 University of Zurich Zurich Open Repository and Archive Winterthurerstr. 190