There are many ideas about how to do requirements engineering and often they conflict with each other. Such conflicts can best be resolved by asking of anything one proposes to do: “What is the use of doing that?“. The question demands a thorough understanding of the principles behind different methods, and the answers may surprise those who equate pragmatism with informality. I discuss how app...

Today factual knowledge training and soft skill training are typically taught as separate disciplines. This approach falls short of the need of the participants to learn, understand and experience the application of typical soft skills such as communication skills within their domain. Requirements engineering (RE) in practice requires for instance excellent communication skills. We propose to u...

To improve requirements engineering education and training, experience reports serve as guidance on how courses can be taught and which methods and approaches work with specific types of audiences. One problem when teaching undergraduate audiences is often a lack in motivation for the course because of misconceptions about requirements engineering as well as simple work overload by the curricul...

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Engineering the right software requirements under the right environment assumptions is a critical precondition for developing the right software. Requirements completeness, in particular, is known to be among the most critical and difficult software engineering challenges. Missing requirements often result from poor risk analysis at requirements engineering time. A natural inclination to concei...

Requirement engineering is the most powerful phase of software development process. It targets to collect good requirements from stakeholders in the right way. Requirements engineering is the initial phase of software engineering process in which user requirements are gathered, understood, and state clearly for developing quality software products. The current software process improvement stand...

In March 2001, two student teams, one in Melbourne, Australia, and one in Dortmund, Germany, started a common software engineering project to develop an electronic management tool for the support of scientific conferences. Both teams had to take part in all key activities of this project. The different deliverables had to be matched periodically in order to ensure the development of a common to...

An der Fachhochschule Stralsund wird Requirements Engineering seit einigen Jahren in einer viertägigen Blockwoche gelehrt. Verschiedene Varianten der Vermittlung wurden dabei erprobt. In diesem Artikel werden die aus unserer Sicht wichtigsten Faktoren für Erfolg und Misserfolg dargestellt.