Enabling Collaboration in Distributed Requirements Management

  • Authors:
  • Vibha Sinha;Bikram Sengupta;Satish Chandra

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM India Research Lab;IBM India Research Lab;IBM T.J. Watson Research

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Requirements management, one of the most collaboration-intensive activities in softwaredevelopment, presents significant difficulties when stakeholders are distributed, as in today'sglobal projects. After a review of requirements management in current work practices, the authorsdescribe EGRET, a collaborative requirements management tool for distributed software developmentteams. They present their design motivations for EGRET, a preliminary evaluation of its usability,and directions for further enhancement. This article is part of a special issue on Global Software Development.