We propose PM (Project Management) patterns in order to prevent schedule delays caused by requirements changes on empirical studies. Changes or late elicitation of requirements during the design, coding and test processes are one of the most serious risks, which may delay the project schedules. However, changes and late elicitation of requirements are sometimes inevitably accepted during the de...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein Verfahren zur Auswahl von Projektmanagement-Softwaresystemen vorgestellt, welches allgemeingültig und auf unterschiedliche Unternehmen übertragbar ist. Das entwickelte Vorgehen besteht aus den Schritten „Anforderungsanalyse“ und „Auswahl der Software“ und führt damit bisherige Ansätze der Requirements Elicitation und Studien zu Auswahlkriterien für Projektman...

This paper provides a first account of the Building the Internet Workforce project. A number of further papers are planned. An outline of the project’s progress and outcomes is provided and the WEBWORKFORCE Learning Repository, a major deliverable of the project, is described. Theoretical perspectives about learning objects and their reuse, storage and retrieval are discussed and an outline of ...

Requirements elicitation techniques are methods used by analysts to determine the needs of customers and users, so that systems can be built with a high probability of satisfying those needs. Analysts with extensive experience seem to be more successful than less experienced analysts in uncovering the user needs. Less experienced analysts often select a technique based on one of two reasons: (a...

The aim of this article is to investigate whether choosing the appropriate referring expression requires taking into account the hearer’s perspective, as is predicted under some versions of bidirectional Optimality Theory but is unexpected under other versions. We did this by comparing the results of 25 young and 25 elderly adults on an elicitation task based on 8 different picture stories, and...

The paper presents a novel approach to collaborative design of educational software with students, one that asks the participants for the formation and use of fictional characters – design alter egos – as a means towards eliciting requirements and design ideas. In order to evaluate the suggested approach, we conducted 12 collaborative design sessions with the participation of 54 undergraduate u...

This study compares individual preferences across incentives (i.e., hypothetical vs. real incentives) and over time (i.e. elicitation at two different points in time) in a choice experiment involving charitable donating decisions. We provide evidence of hypothetical bias but little evidence of instability of individual giving. There is significant heterogeneity in individual preferences, with r...

ion P ro po tio n of s ub je ct s No guidance Using CREWS-L'Ecritoire Figure 5 : distribution of subjects having identified collections of complementary system functions having given rates of quality 7 Evaluation of hypothesis H8 To evaluate hypothesis H8, the subjects were requested to identify several system functions hidden within a scenario they were provided with. Three system functions we...