An exploration into the process of requirements elicitation: A grounded approach

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 212-249

  Chakraborty, Suranjan ^a   Sarker, Saonee ^b   Sarker, Suprateek ^c  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Abduction; Adapted grounded theory methodology; Collaboration; Grounded approach; Knowledge transfer; Process model; Requirements elicitation; User representative analyst interaction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

ABDUCTION; COLLABORATION; GROUNDED APPROACH; GROUNDED THEORY; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; PROCESS MODELING; REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION; USER REPRESENTATIVE-ANALYST INTERACTION;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 77953090447     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00225     Document Type: Review

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