TY - GEN
T1 - Competencies desirable for a requirements elicitation specialist in a global software development
AU - Romero, Miguel
AU - Vizcaíno, Aurora
AU - Piattini, Mario
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - The global software development poses several challenges in software engineering, particularly in the elicitation stage, owing to the problems of communication and coordination which are caused when teams are geographically distributed. For a successful requirements elicitation in a global development environment, it is necessary to rely on professionals who are capable of confronting the challenges that arise in this environments such as: cultural differences, distributed communication and coordination. In order to develop in software engineers the skills suitable to face these challenges it is first necessary to discover which competencies or skills they should have or develop. In this work we describe an analysis carried out with this goal, therefore we propose a list of competencies desirable by a requirements elicitation specialist, which have been obtained from a review of the related literature. We also comment on certain useful strategies in the teaching of these competencies and propose the usage of a simulation environment for their development.
AB - The global software development poses several challenges in software engineering, particularly in the elicitation stage, owing to the problems of communication and coordination which are caused when teams are geographically distributed. For a successful requirements elicitation in a global development environment, it is necessary to rely on professionals who are capable of confronting the challenges that arise in this environments such as: cultural differences, distributed communication and coordination. In order to develop in software engineers the skills suitable to face these challenges it is first necessary to discover which competencies or skills they should have or develop. In this work we describe an analysis carried out with this goal, therefore we propose a list of competencies desirable by a requirements elicitation specialist, which have been obtained from a review of the related literature. We also comment on certain useful strategies in the teaching of these competencies and propose the usage of a simulation environment for their development.
KW - Educational environment
KW - Global software development
KW - Requirements elicitation training
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:57649220045
SN - 9789898111524
T3 - ICSOFT 2008 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies
SP - 347
EP - 354
BT - 2nd International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing, ACT4SOC 2008 - In Conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, ICSOFT 2008
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, ICSOFT 2008
Y2 - 5 July 2008 through 8 July 2008
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