Title :
Assessment of the requirements management process using a two-stage questionnaire
Author :
Cuevas, Gonzalo ; Serrano, Alan ; Serrano, Ariel
Author_Institution :
Fac. de Informatica, Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Abstract :
This research advocates the idea that although requirements management process is not carried out in many organizations, there are some people within the organization that perform some requirements management practices. However, these practices are usually not documented and as consequence are not spread across the organization. This paper proposes an assessment methodology based on a two-stage questionnaire to identify which practices of the requirements management process are performed but not documented, which practices require to be prioritized and which are not implemented due to bad management or unawareness. In order to validate the assessment methodology, the questionnaire was applied to an industrial case study.
Keywords :
formal specification; software development management; assessment methodology; industrial case study; requirements management practice; requirements management process; two-stage questionnaire; Appraisal; Best practices; Capability maturity model; Coordinate measuring machines; Costs; Software development management; Software maintenance; Software quality; Software systems; Systems engineering and theory;
Conference_Titel :
Quality Software, 2004. QSIC 2004. Proceedings. Fourth International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2207-6
DOI :
10.1109/QSIC.2004.1357951