Requirements in the Global Economy-Experience, Problems and Prospects
Alistair Sutcliffe · 2007
This panel will examine issues related to the conference theme ‘Requirements in the Global Economy’ contrasting academic studies from Dana Damian and Brian Nicholson with industrial experience from Kris Gopalakrishnan (Infosys) and S. Sivaguru, (HCL). Offshore software development is an increasingly important component of the global economy, and India is one of the market leading software suppliers. However, globalisation has exacerbated many familiar problems in requirements engineering: understanding users’ needs, reconciling conflicting goals between stakeholders, validating requirements (and development systems) to meet users needs, and so on. Distributed requirements engineering where customers and suppliers are separated by distance, time, culture and frequently language needs improved solutions to old problems of enhancing mutual understanding between customers and suppliers, managing the process and fostering long term mutually beneficial relationships.