A Model for Selecting Techniques in Distributed Requirement Elicitation Processes

2011 ◽  
pp. 351-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Aranda ◽  
Aurora Vizcaíno ◽  
Alejandra Cechich ◽  
Mario Piattini
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Cognitive Styles ◽  
Requirements Elicitation ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Requirement Elicitation ◽  
Distributed Development ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
And Control

This chapter introduces a model based on techniques from cognitive psychology as a means to improve the requirement elicitation in global software development projects. Since distance negatively affects communication and control, distributed development processes that are crucially based on communication, such as requirements elicitation, have to be specially rethought in order to minimize critical situations. This chapter proposes reducing problems in communication by selecting a suite of appropriate elicitation techniques and groupware tools according to stakeholders’ cognitive styles. It also shows how information about stakeholders’ personalities can be used to make them feel comfortable and to improve their performances when working in a group.

scholarly journals Strategies to Minimize Problems in Global Requirements Elicitation

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela N Aranda ◽  
Aurora Vizcaíno ◽  
Alejandra Cechich ◽  
Mario Piattini
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Requirements Elicitation ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Requirement Elicitation ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Elicitation Process

Many challenges arise in global software development projects, most of which are related to the lack of face-to-face communication and people’s need to feel comfortable with the technology that they use. In this paper we introduce a methodology to detect the problems which may occur during the global requirement elicitation process and propose solutions to reduce them.

A method for investigating the quality of evolving object-oriented software using defects in global software development projects

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 622-641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Jabangwe ◽  
Claes Wohlin ◽  
Kai Petersen ◽  
Darja Šmite ◽  
Jürgen Börstler
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Development Projects

A Requirement Elicitation Methodology for Global Software Development Teams

2011 ◽  
pp. 3273-3282
Author(s):  
Gabriela N. Aranda ◽  
Aurora Vizcaíno ◽  
Alejandra Cechich ◽  
Mario Piattini
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Requirement Elicitation ◽  
Development Team ◽  
Cognitive Characteristics ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Geographically Distributed ◽  
Elicitation Process ◽  
Software Development Teams

Failures during the elicitation process have been usually attributed to the difficulty of the development team in working on a cooperative basis (Togneri, Falbo, & de Menezes, 2002), but today there are other points that have to be considered. In order to save costs, modern software organizations tend to have their software development team geographically distributed, so distance between members becomes one of the most important issues added to the traditional problems of the requirement elicitation process (Brooks, 1987; Loucopoulos & Karakostas, 1995). So far, literature has widely analysed real life Global Software Development (GSD) projects and pointed out the main problems that affect such environments, especially related to communication. As a complementary view, we have focused our research on analysing how cognitive characteristics can affect people interaction in GSD projects, especially during the requirement elicitation process, where communication becomes crucial. In this article, we present the main characteristics of requirements elicitation in GSD projects and introduce a cognitive-based requirement elicitation methodology for such environments.

Tool-Support for Software Development Processes

2010 ◽  
pp. 213-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Kuhrmann ◽  
Georg Kalus ◽  
Gerhard Chroust
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Tool Support ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Crucial Step ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
The Many

Software development projects are complex. The more complex a project is, the higher are the requirements related to the software development process. The implementation of a process is a great challenge. This, in part, has to do with human factors (acceptance, etc.) as the benefits of a formal development process might not be obvious immediately and it may take a while until the process becomes the lifeblood of a team. A crucial step towards implementing, enacting and enforcing a process is to provide tool support for the many activities the process asks for. Tool support is necessary to guarantee efficiency in the project, to do the housekeeping and to minimize the “overhead” of the process. This chapter describes challenges and options for supporting process models by tools. Furthermore it describes concrete samples and shows how tool chains can be created with commercial tools as well as with open source tools.

scholarly journals Communication Management in Global Software Development Projects

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusmadi Yah Jusoh ◽  
Rozi Nor Haizan Nor ◽  
Bashar Amir Mahmood ◽  
Mustafa Thamir Wafeeq ◽  
Mohamed Abdullahi Ali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Communication Management
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