TY - GEN
T1 - Designing and evaluating collaborative processes for requirements elicitation and validation
AU - Fruhling, Ann
AU - Steinhauser, Lucas
AU - Hoff, Gregory
AU - Dunbar, Christopher
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Defining and validating system requirements are one of the most important activities in the development of an information system. It often requires collaboration of multiple stakeholders who have different needs and perspectives. In many cases it is especially challenging to facilitate the gathering of the requirements in an efficient and effective manner in a hierarchical environment and yet encourage system stakeholders to freely share their ideas and opinions. The goal of our research was to implement and evaluate a collaboration engineering process that would facilitate system requirements validation and elicit new requirements from key stakeholders who had disparate needs. We applied several collaboration "thinkLets" in our process and then evaluated their effectiveness. The study focused on a User Alerts/Events Notification system for the US Military at USSTRATCOM. Two sessions were conducted that generated a number of insights on the implementation and transferability of thinkLets as well as lessons learned by novice facilitators.
AB - Defining and validating system requirements are one of the most important activities in the development of an information system. It often requires collaboration of multiple stakeholders who have different needs and perspectives. In many cases it is especially challenging to facilitate the gathering of the requirements in an efficient and effective manner in a hierarchical environment and yet encourage system stakeholders to freely share their ideas and opinions. The goal of our research was to implement and evaluate a collaboration engineering process that would facilitate system requirements validation and elicit new requirements from key stakeholders who had disparate needs. We applied several collaboration "thinkLets" in our process and then evaluated their effectiveness. The study focused on a User Alerts/Events Notification system for the US Military at USSTRATCOM. Two sessions were conducted that generated a number of insights on the implementation and transferability of thinkLets as well as lessons learned by novice facilitators.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2007.170
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2007.170
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:39749151625
SN - 0769527558
SN - 9780769527550
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
BT - Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2007, HICSS'07
T2 - 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2007, HICSS'07
Y2 - 3 January 2007 through 6 January 2007
ER -