“It Depends”: Heuristics for Common-Enough Requirements Practice
Sarah C. Gregory · IEEE Software · 2018
How much diversity is permissible in requirements practices in a large corporation? Can different project teams legitimately use different elicitation methods, specification techniques, standards and checklists for reviews, and databases to manage content? Or is allowing any difference at all only inviting trouble? This instalment of the Requirements department shares how requirements specialists at Intel approach these questions through training, with a few examples of what they teach to better enable individuals and teams to continually improve their requirements engineering (RE) practice. It also discusses why practitioner engagement with the broader RE community is critical.