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12th Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering


How to fulfill stakeholder's requirements
Modeling an enterprise is not a simple task, you have to consider different stakeholders with different requirements, but also with different preferences on how they would like to access the enterprise knowledge. This presentation outlines different solutions all based on a central repository, where your enterprise can get the most benefit out of the enterprise model.

Reusable Security Requirements
This is a great presentation by Donald Firesmith covering the topic of Reusable Security Requirements.  

2 Keys to Reduce Risk: Requirements Definition and Requirements Management
Gathering and managing requirements are fundamental challenges in project management. Most successful projects have high quality project requirements. Projects can fail due to poor requirements at any time during the project lifecycle without effective requirements management. The Project Manager needs to assess and understand the uniqueness of the requirements gathering process for his/her individual project.

Experiences in Eliciting Security Requirements
There are many requirements elicitation methods, but we seldom see elicitation performed specifically for security requirements. One reason for this is that few elicitation methods are specifically directed at security requirements. Another factor is that organizations seldom address security requirements elicitation specifically and instead lump them in with other traditional requirements elicitation methods. This article describes an approach for doing trade-off analysis among requirements elicitation methods. Several case studies were conducted in security requirements elicitation; the det...

Requirements Gathering - Scheduling Activities
Requirements gathering activities should be scheduled by your project plan like any other project related activities. If these activities don't track to the schedule, whether because the schedule isn't feasible or some other reason, it will cause all the dependant activities to slip. Once you've chosen your requirements gathering approach and the stakeholders you'll meet with to gather the requirements, you can schedule the meetings, or interviews, or other methods for soliciting the requirements.

Requirements Gathering - Define Requirements Accurately
The requirements you capture must be stated in business terms, must be clearly stated, must be concise, and must be feasible. To ensure that requirements are clearly stated, you should have them proof read by someone external to the project (or at least someone not familiar with the requirements you've captured).

Requirements Gathering and Documentation
Very few people doubt it nowadays: The gathering of requirements and its appropriate documentation is a fundamental step in the success of any project. Yet, many people still disregard it.

Business Analyst Lessons - Solid Requirements Matter
A company with poor requirements practices is just asking for over-budget costs and regular failure, according to a new report by IAG Consulting. The report, entitled Business Analysis Benchmark, examined 110 enterprise technology projects at 100 companies to determine just how important project requirements really are.

Requirements Gathering - Define Requirements Accurately
The requirements you capture must be stated in business terms, must be clearly stated, must be concise, and must be feasible. To ensure that requirements are clearly stated, you should have them proof read by someone external to the project (or at least someone not familiar with the requirements you've captured). Any questions raised by your proof reader should trigger a re-write of that requirement. Clean the language up until your proof reader understands the requirement.