Making sense of product requirements

Proceedings of the 2010 18th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 89-92

  Jantunen, Sami ^a   Gause, Donald C ^b   Wessman, Ragnar ^c  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Tekla Corporation   (Finland)

Author keywords

Human factors; Market driven requirements engineering; Sensemaking

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PROBLEMS; GLOBAL BUSINESS; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; HUMAN FACTORS; MARKET-DRIVEN REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES; PRODUCT REQUIREMENTS; SENSEMAKING; SET OF CUSTOMERS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; VALUE ORIENTATION;

DECISION MAKING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INDUSTRY; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 78650394872     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RE.2010.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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