TY - GEN
T1 - Towards building knowledge on causes of critical requirements engineering problems
AU - Kalinowski, Marcos
AU - Spínola, Rodrigo Oliveira
AU - Conte, Tayana
AU - Prikladnicki, Rafael
AU - Fernández, Daniel Méndez
AU - Wagner, Stefan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2015 by KSI Research Inc. and Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - [Context] Many software projects fail due to problems in requirements engineering (RE). [Objective] The goal of this paper is to gather information on relevant RE problems and to represent knowledge on their most common causes. [Method] We replicated a global family of RE surveys in Brazil and used the data to identify critical RE problems and to build probabilistic causeeffect diagrams to represent knowledge on their common causes. [Results] The survey was answered by 74 different organizations, including small, medium and very large sized companies, conducting both, plan-driven and agile development. The most critical RE problems, according to those organizations, are related to communication and to incomplete or underspecified requirements. We provide the full probabilistic cause-effect diagrams with knowledge on common causes of the most critical identified RE problems online. [Conclusion] We believe that the knowledge presented in the diagrams can be helpful to support organizations in conducting causal analysis sessions by providing an initial understanding on what usually causes critical RE problems.
AB - [Context] Many software projects fail due to problems in requirements engineering (RE). [Objective] The goal of this paper is to gather information on relevant RE problems and to represent knowledge on their most common causes. [Method] We replicated a global family of RE surveys in Brazil and used the data to identify critical RE problems and to build probabilistic causeeffect diagrams to represent knowledge on their common causes. [Results] The survey was answered by 74 different organizations, including small, medium and very large sized companies, conducting both, plan-driven and agile development. The most critical RE problems, according to those organizations, are related to communication and to incomplete or underspecified requirements. We provide the full probabilistic cause-effect diagrams with knowledge on common causes of the most critical identified RE problems online. [Conclusion] We believe that the knowledge presented in the diagrams can be helpful to support organizations in conducting causal analysis sessions by providing an initial understanding on what usually causes critical RE problems.
KW - Causal Analysis
KW - Causes
KW - Knowledge Building
KW - NaPiRE
KW - Problems
KW - Requirements Engineering
KW - Survey
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U2 - 10.18293/SEKE2015-220
DO - 10.18293/SEKE2015-220
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84969772211
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE
SP - 1
EP - 6
BT - Proceedings - SEKE 2015
PB - Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School
T2 - 27th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2015
Y2 - 6 July 2015 through 8 July 2015
ER -