From our desk chairs it may be tempting to work up an idea, build a quick prototype, test it in
a lab, and say,“Our work here is done; the rest is merely details.” More scholarly knowledge …

Field research and laboratory experiments suggest that, under certain circumstances,
people using group support systems (GSS) can be significantly more productive than people …

Requirements have remained one of the grand challenges in the design of software
intensive systems. In this paper we review the main strands of requirements research over …

Interviews are the most common and effective means to perform requirements elicitation and
support knowledge transfer between a customer and a requirements analyst. Ambiguity in …

Consensus-building is an essential process for the success of co-design projects. To build
consensus, stakeholders need to discuss conflicting needs and viewpoints, converge their …

People can generate more innovative ideas when they collaborate with one another,
collectively exploring ideas and exchanging viewpoints. Advancements in artificial …

Little guidance and few methods are available for the refinement of software requirements
into an architecture satisfying those requirements. Part of the challenge stems from the fact …

More than 3/4 of large software projects suffer large cost and schedule overruns or fail
outright. Deficits in project requirements cause more than half of these failures and overruns …

Abstract Modern Software Engineering (SE) is characterized by the use of several models
that establish and show the different states a software product goes through, from its initial …

In this paper we show that interviews between IT consultants and clients are considered best
practice in terms of methods for eliciting IS requirements as part of IS development projects …