Software Requirements Negotiation: Some Lessons Learned

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Software Requirements Negotiation: Some Lessons Learned (1998)

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by Barry Boehm , Alexander Egyed

Venue:	Proceedings of the 20 th International Conference on Software Engineering
Citations:	10 - 1 self

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@INPROCEEDINGS{Boehm98softwarerequirements,
    author = {Barry Boehm and Alexander Egyed},
    title = {Software Requirements Negotiation: Some Lessons Learned},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20 th International Conference on Software Engineering},
    year = {1998},
    pages = {503--507}
}

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Negotiating requirements is one of the first steps in any software system life cycle, but its results have probably the most significant impact on the system's value. However, the processes of requirements negotiation are not well understood. We have had the opportunity to capture and analyze requirements negotiation behavior for groups of projects developing library multimedia archive systems, using an instrumented version of the USC WinWin groupware system for requirements negotiation. Some of the more illuminating results were: . Most stakeholder Win Conditions were noncontroversial (were not involved in Issues) . Negotiation activity varied by stakeholder role. . LCO package quality (measured by grading criteria) could be predicted by negotiation attributes. . WinWin increased cooperativeness, reduced friction, and helped focus on key issues. Keywords Requirements negotiation, WinWin , Metrics, Groupware. 1 INTRODUCTION Involved in the projects were a dozen librarians from...

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software requirement negotiation requirement negotiation introduction involved key issue library multimedia archive system dozen librarian usc winwin groupware system negotiation attribute instrumented version illuminating result negotiation activity keywords requirement negotiation stakeholder win condition lco package quality significant impact first step negotiating requirement software system life cycle requirement negotiation behavior

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