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Criteria used in selecting effective requirements elicitation procedures

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Alta van der Merwe,

Paula KotzéAuthors Info & Claims

SAICSIT '07: Proceedings of the 2007 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing countries

Pages 162 - 171

https://doi.org/10.1145/1292491.1292510

Published: 02 October 2007 Publication History

Abstract

New methods, methodologies and procedures are often introduced within information systems without discussing the effectiveness thereof. We investigate the effectiveness of a requirements elicitation procedure for deriving process model structures. There were three activities that 'rigged' this study before comments were possible on the effectiveness of the requirements elicitation procedure: identification of the characteristics that the procedure adhered to, investigating the usefulness of the procedure, and using the procedure. Each of these activities is discussed. The higher education institution is used as illustrative case domain.

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Index Terms

Criteria used in selecting effective requirements elicitation procedures
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
      2. Software management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management

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SAICSIT '07: Proceedings of the 2007 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing countries

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DOI:10.1145/1292491

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Lace KKirikova M(2021)The Models for Knowledge Acquisition in PMI Specific Requirements EngineeringThe Practice of Enterprise Modeling10.1007/978-3-030-91279-6_3(34-47)Online publication date: 11-Nov-2021
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Dongmo Cvan der Poll JBrown ISewchurran KSuleman H(2011)Evaluating software specifications by comparisonProceedings of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference on Knowledge, Innovation and Leadership in a Diverse, Multidisciplinary Environment10.1145/2072221.2072232(87-96)Online publication date: 3-Oct-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2072221.2072232
Dongmo Cvan der Poll JKotzé Pvan der Merwe AGerber A(2010)A four-way framework for validating a specificationProceedings of the 2010 Annual Research Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists10.1145/1899503.1899509(48-57)Online publication date: 11-Oct-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1899503.1899509

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