Understanding the Product Life Cycle: Four Key Requirements Engineering Techniques

  • Authors:
  • Christof Ebert

  • Affiliations:
  • Alcatel

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Requirements are the initial and basic building blocks combining processes in a product's life-cycle. The article describes a field study with data from 246 industry projects in the domains of software platforms, embedded systems and software applications. The study reveals that four life-cycle techniques must be used simultaneously to achieve tangible performance improvement measured by schedule adherence. Each technique is discussed using concrete, practical experiences.This article is part of a special issue on requirements engineering.