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A Framework for Improving the Requirements Engineering Process Effectiveness
Author(s) -
Williams Ddembe,
Kennedy Michael
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1999.tb00328.x
Subject(s) - process (computing) , computer science , schedule , systems engineering , process modeling , requirements engineering , quality (philosophy) , work in process , engineering design process , risk analysis (engineering) , process management , management science , engineering , operations management , operating system , mechanical engineering , medicine , programming language , philosophy , software , epistemology
This paper presents “research in progress” for a proposed process simulation‐modelling framework for improving the requirements engineering process effectiveness. It presents a framework based on system dynamics model for measuring the RE process performance in terms of quality, cost resources and schedule adherence. The paper describes the factors included in an initial requirements engineering process model and proposes further work based on the main research issues derived from the model. In developing such a model, the research fills an important gap in the requirements engineering process literature and has the potential to provide practising requirements managers with a tool to support policy development and decision‐making in improving process effectiveness. The strength of the proposed model and its advantages over the existing models is its dynamic nature, and its capability to incorporate both hard and soft factors and the understanding gained from explanatory insights from the feedback structures. Preliminary results based on a pilot case study suggest that the process model‐based tool makes a useful contribution for understanding the RE process. Such a tool may be useful in attaining process effectiveness based on a learning and training environment supported by the system dynamics tools.