Deciding to Adopt Traceability in Practice Influencing this decision

Preface iv Deciding to Adopt Traceability in Practice v Preface Before you lies the result of six months of research, which is to be the " pièce de résistance " of my attempt of obtaining the title of Master of Science. I know that I may have disappointed some people by not finishing this report and presenting its findings on August 4 th , as I promised so many people I would be doing from February on. I would hereby like to offer my sincere apologies to these people that in the end I required one week more to be able to present my findings in both this report and my colloquium at the University of Twente on August 11 th. To trace or not to trace, that's the question. This document is a report on the research performed during the last half year at Ordina N.V. into the " why " and " how " of the adoption of requirements traceability in development projects. This research required the assistance, guidance and contribution of a good many people, which I would all like to thank. In particular, I would like to thank the people which offered me moral support during the period of this research, consisting of people I could bother on MSN, but also those nearer to me. My parents, for the diners we had every few weeks where I gave another update on how things were coming along but especially to my girlfriend, Marije, who sometimes must have been bored to death with the seemingly never ending stream of things I had to say about my project (does probably does not only apply to her) Luckily I'm finally starting to learn to let go of things and to stop thinking of work all the time. Klaas Sikkel, my first supervisor, was always available to me. Both the discussions we had about the research and the research process, but even more the confidence he gave me through his support meant a lot to me and were of great help. Mehmet Aydin was very strong in the meetings we had discussing the progress and the work done, I was specifically helped by his critical view on the research process. Except for the supervision from the university, I also had a lot of help from the people at Ordina. Emiel and Nicole did not only make sure that I did not …