BACKGROUND—Software Process Improvement (SPI) is a systematic approach to increase
the efficiency and effectiveness of a software development organization and to enhance …

Nowadays, many software development organisations are globalising their work throughout
the world. The motivation behind the software globalisation is competitive advantage and …

Requirements Engineering (RE) has received much attention in research and practice due
to its importance to software project success. Its interdisciplinary nature, the dependency to …

The phenomena of global software development (GSD) face many challenges that are
specifically associated with software process improvement (SPI). The main objective of this …

Weak alignment of requirements engineering (RE) with verification and validation (VV) may
lead to problems in delivering the required products in time with the right quality. For …

Requirements Engineering (RE) has established itself as a software engineering discipline
over the past decades. While researchers have been investigating the RE discipline with a …

In software intensive products such as cars or telecom systems, software has traditionally
been associated with cost, and there has been no real perception of its value in relation to …

Context: For many years, we have observed industry struggling in defining a high quality
requirements engineering (RE) and researchers trying to understand industrial expectations …

Agile development methods such as extreme programming (XP), SCRUM, Lean Software
Development (Lean SD) and others have gained much popularity during the last years …

In order to create a successful software product and assure its quality, it is not enough to
fulfill the functional requirements, it is also crucial to find the right balance among competing …