Requirements Communication

Requirements communication is the process of conveying needs from a given customer to a given supplier that enables the supplier to deliver a solution that is accepted by the customer. A product manager or a government agency can be a customer. An in-house development team or an external company may be a supplier.

Publications

Shared Understanding

M. Glinz, S. Fricker (2012). "On Shared Understanding in Software Engineering", invited paper for Software Engineering 2012 Conference (SE 2012), Aachen, Germany.

Requirements Communication for In-House Product Development

S. Fricker, M. Glinz (2010). "Comparison of Requirements Hand-Off, Analysis, and Negotiation: Case Study", 18th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'10), Sydney, Australia. [pdf] [pdf: slides]

S. Fricker, T. Gorschek, C. Byman, A. Schmidle (2010). "Handshaking with Implementation Proposals: Negotiating Requirements Understanding", IEEE Software 27, 2. 72-80. [pdf] [www]

S. Fricker, T. Gorschek, M. Glinz (2008). "Goal-Oriented Requirements Communication in New Product Development", 2nd International Workshop on Software Product Management (IWSPM'08), Barcelona, Spain. [pdf]

S. Fricker, P. Grünbacher (2008). "Negotiation Constellations - Method Selection Framework for Requirements Negotiation", 14th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (RefsQ'08). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 5025, Berlin: Springer. 37-51. [pdf]

S. Fricker, T. Gorschek, P. Myllyperkiö (2007). "Handshaking between Software Projects and Stakeholders Using Implementation Proposals". In P. Sawyer, B. Paech, P. Heymans (eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ'07). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 4542, Berlin: Springer. 144-159. [pdf] [www]

S. Fricker, M. Glinz, P. Kolb (2006). "A Case Study on Overcoming the Requirements Tar Pit", Journal of Universal Knowledge Management (J.UKM) 1, 2. 85-98. [pdf] [www]
(An earlier version of this paper has been published in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Learning Software Organizations and Requirements Engineering (LSO+RE 2006), Hannover, Germany, March 2006.)

Books and Monographies

S. Fricker (2009). Pragmatic Requirements Communication: The Handshaking Approach. Doctoral Thesis, University of Zurich, Switzerland. ISBN 978-3-8322-8602-6. [amazon.de]

Tutorials and Practitioner Talks

S. Fricker, E. Fuchs (2009). "Pragmatisch Anforderungen kommunizieren: Zwei entgegengesetzte Beispiele", in German at REConf Schweiz 2009: [pdf: slides]

S. Fricker (2008). "Verhandle um Anforderungen auch wirklich zu verstehen!", 1. Requirements Engineering Forum 2008, Zurich, Switzerland: [pdf: slides]