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Requirements-Driven Collaboration: Leveraging the Invisible Relationships between Requirements and People

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In this chapter we introduce requirements-driven collaboration, which is the collaboration of a cross-functional team of business analysts, designers, developers and testers during the development and management of requirements. We describe an approach that (1) constructs a requirement-centric social network which represents the membership and relationships among members working on a requirement and its associated downstream artifacts and (2) outlines a number of social network analysis techniques to study collaboration aspects such as communication, awareness , and the alignment of technical dependencies driven by development of requirements and social interactions. To demonstrate our approach, we discuss a case study that examines requirements-driven collaboration within an industrial, globally-distributed software team. Finally, we discuss implications regarding the use of our requirements-driven collaboration approach for research and practice.

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  1. Software Engineering Global interAction Lab, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Daniela Damian, Irwin Kwan & Sabrina Marczak

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  3. Donald Bren School of Information &, University of California, Irvine, Donald Bren Hall 5029, Irvine, 92697-3440, USA

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Damian, D., Kwan, I., Marczak, S. (2010). Requirements-Driven Collaboration: Leveraging the Invisible Relationships between Requirements and People. In: Mistrík, I., Grundy, J., Hoek, A., Whitehead, J. (eds) Collaborative Software Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10294-3_3

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