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Integrated Process Oriented Requirements Management

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2015 Conferences (OTM 2015)

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Within current software development projects requirements are usually derived from a technical point of view. Since these systems are part of an already existing enterprise environment and their goal is to support business processes, the focus should be shifted towards these overlaying business processes. Therefore we propose a holistic method that focuses on business processes and using them as a vantage point from which requirements are elicitated and linked to them. Based on these interconnected dependencies, functional requirements without a business relation can be identified. Furthermore, this also allows identifying aspects that are not yet covered by any requirements as well as process-oriented monitoring throughout all project phases. Existing business process management tools were extended to incorporate this method which was successfully applied within a software development project in a large, international company.

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  1. Corporate Management, Fraunhofer IPK, Berlin, Germany

    Nikolaus Wintrich, Patrick Gering & Malte Meissner

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  1. Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Iran

    Christophe Debruyne

  2. University of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex, France

    Hervé Panetto

  3. TU Graz, Graz, Austria

    Robert Meersman

  4. La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

    Tharam Dillon

  5. PROFACTOR GmbH, Steyr-Gleink, Austria

    Georg Weichhart

  6. Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Yuan An

  7. Università degli Studi di Milano, Crema, Italy

    Claudio Agostino Ardagna

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Wintrich, N., Gering, P., Meissner, M. (2015). Integrated Process Oriented Requirements Management. In: Debruyne, C., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2015 Conferences. OTM 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9415. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26148-5_18

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