Large-scale requirements analysis revisited: The need for understanding the political ecology of requirements engineering

Requirements Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 152-171

  Bergman, Mark ^a   King, John Leslie ^b   Lyytinen, Kalle ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional requirements; Heterogeneous engineering; Political requirements; System failures; System requirements

Indexed keywords

EID: 5644264607     PISSN: 09473602     EISSN: 1432010X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007660200011     Document Type: Article

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