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For many years we have improved tools for specification and implementation, but the problem of delivering unsatisfactory systems persists. A major reason is failure to discover what is really wanted/needed. There are differences of view which contribute to this - differences between: what is wanted and needed (required design rather than requirement); the contractual customer and end-user customers; different types of end-user customers; individual customers of any given type; the views of a given person at different times
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Mullery, G. (1998). Discovering, Displaying and Agreeing Semantics in an Environment of Conflicts. In: Bosch, J., Mitchell, S. (eds) Object-Oriented Technologys. ECOOP 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1357. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-69687-3_41
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