Evaluation of strategic investments in information technology
Communications of the ACM
Classification of research efforts in requirements engineering
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Practical software requirements: a manual of content and style
Practical software requirements: a manual of content and style
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Problem frames: analyzing and structuring software development problems
Problem frames: analyzing and structuring software development problems
Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
DEXA '00 Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Towards Modeling and Reasoning Support for Early-Phase Requirements Engineering
RE '97 Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering
IEEE Software
Discovering Real Business Requirements for Software Project Success
Discovering Real Business Requirements for Software Project Success
APSEC '04 Proceedings of the 11th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
Strategic alignment in requirements analysis for organizational IT: an integrated approach
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Requirements engineering for e-business advantage
Requirements Engineering
Just Enough Requirements Management: Where Software Development Meets Marketing
Just Enough Requirements Management: Where Software Development Meets Marketing
Journal of Systems and Software
Managing requirements for a US$1bn IT-based business transformation: New approaches and challenges
Journal of Systems and Software
Three integration approaches for map and B-SCP requirements engineering techniques
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Investigating Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering for Business Processes
Journal of Database Management
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Delivery of IT projects in today's rapidly changing business environment is a challenge. Conventional investment approaches result in lumpy capital allocations, which encourage managers to include many potential future business requirements in each capital request. This locks in the delivery of future requirements despite high market uncertainty. The resulting projects are large and complex from both a technical and management perspective. In the management literature, new frameworks are emerging that draw on Real Options valuations to justify early infrastructure investment and provide fine-grained control over business initiatives in an uncertain world. Business managers can then build on the infrastructure by selecting business initiatives to maximise option value. However, this requires engineering approaches that separates infrastructure and business requirements and minimises their dependencies. This paper explores a contingency approach to Requirements Engineering (RE) to minimise initial requirements and maximise future strategic options, challenging the research community's dominant paradigm of completeness, correctness and consistency.