Visual Strawman to Relate Program RE to Project RE

Author

Palyagar, Bhavani ; Shanthakumar, Poornima ; Kishore, Aklesh

fYear

2008

fDate

8-8 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

Requirements Engineering (RE) of a program is closely related to that of the projects within the program. The relationships dictate timelines of the program and related projects. Further, the relationships determine the effect of Change on the program, and the intensity of risk management required to reduce program failures. Inherent complexity of RE phase forces the relationships intricate thus making program management a difficult exercise. Familiar methods to represent relationships are descriptive alphanumeric data and gantt charts. These methods are inadequate to present the Program and Project phases with their relationships in a single paradigm. Further, with the existing methods, it is difficult to present Desired and Actual states of Program and Project phases in one model. This paper presents a tested visualization technique to connect a program RE with its projects. The technique provides an easy way to represent association of program RE to project RE.

Keywords

program visualisation; project management; risk management; software management; Gantt charts; descriptive alphanumeric data; program association; program failures; program timelines; requirements engineering; risk management intensity; visual strawman; Automation; Data visualization; Humans; Programmable control; Programming; Project management; Quality management; Risk management; Scheduling; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Requirements Engineering Visualization, 2008. REV '08.

Conference_Location

Barcelona, Catalunya

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4081-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3629-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/REV.2008.5

Filename

4797476