NDLI: Workshop videos for requirements communication

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Fricker, Samuel A. Schneider, Kurt Fotrousi, Farnaz Thuemmler, Christoph
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Shared understanding of requirements between stakeholders and the development team is a critical success factor for requirements engineering. Workshops are an effective means for achieving such shared understanding. Stakeholders and team representatives can meet and discuss what a planned software system should be and how it should support achieving stakeholder goals. However, some important intended recipients of the requirements are often not present in such workshops: the developers. Thus, they cannot benefit from the in-depth understanding of the requirements and of the rationales for these requirements that develops during the workshops. The simple handover of a requirements specification hardly compensates the rich requirements understanding that is needed for the development of an acceptable system. To compensate the lack of presence in a requirements workshop, we propose to record that requirements workshop on video. If workshop participants agree to be recorded, a video is relatively simple to create and can capture much more aspects about requirements and rationales than a specification document. This paper presents the workshop video technique and a phenomenological evaluation of its use for requirements communication from the perspective of software developers. The results show how the technique was appreciated by observers of the video, present positive and negative feedbacks from the observers, and lead to recommendations for implementing the technique in practice.
Starting Page	521
Ending Page	552
Page Count	32
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09473602
Journal	Requirements Engineering
Volume Number	21
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	1432010X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer London
Publisher Date	2015-06-22
Publisher Place	London
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Workshop videos Requirements communication Video analysis Developer perception Phenomenological evaluation Software Engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Information Systems Software

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