Information and Software Technology
REFSQ'13 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality
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Software development world is experiencing anirreversible trend towards the globalization of business.This creates the need to achieve a thorough understandingof collaborative activities such as requirements engineeringand design of software in distributed developmentenvironments. The requirements conflicts and tradeoffs arecritical aspects that occur throughout the softwaredevelopment and we, as software engineers, need to betterunderstand the technological impacts on the performanceof groups resolving requirements issues in distributeddevelopment structures.In this paper lessons learned from an exploratory studyof requirements meetings in which stakeholders participatefrom remote sites are reported. Evidence not only showsthat distributed requirements engineering is supported bycurrent multimedia meeting systems but also revealsaspects that enabled the distributed communication ofstakeholders to be more effective in achieving agreementsintegrative of each stakeholder's interests and needs.Practical implications of the results and recommendationsfor the software industry in enabling effective distributedrequirements meetings are outlined.