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Workshop on the Interplay of Requirements Engineering and Project Management in Software Projects (REProMan)

Tuesday August 30th, 2005
Paris, France

In conjunction with RE05, the 13th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference

             Agenda Targeted Attendees Expected Outcomes Important Dates Program Committee Contact

 
         

Workshop description: Requirements engineering usually is regarded as a technical discipline and project management as a managerial activity. They are often treated separately, although in real software projects they are interrelated in both directions and in many ways. Project management usually treats requirements engineering as a black box. On the other hand requirements engineering only incoherently treats management constraints like project scope, communication issues, risk and change management. Project success would profit from a much tighter integration. Project management should not only assure the necessary frame for successful requirements engineering, but also impose restrictions on the requirements engineering process and the identified requirements. In the opposite direction the requirements engineer should support project success by providing the manager with important information like status of requirements, risks and problems.


Outcomes

Expected Outcomes were: Characterization of roles, activities and processes, especially at the interface of RE and project management: What does the project manager deliver to the requirements engineer and vice versa? How do both roles and disciplines play together in the field of change and risk management? Identification of benefits and risks in the interplay of requirements engineering and project management. Experience reports about the interaction of RE and project management, leading to hypotheses as a basis of further research.

You can download the papers presented during the morning session in the "agenda" section below.

During the afternoon session, interesting topics at the interface of RE and PM were identified, discussed and prioritized. One of the results of REProMan was a list of four issues having been voted to be the most important ones which should be treated in future: process (especially quality assurance), stakeholder selection, requirements prioritization, effort estimation.

A following Workshop on the Interplay of Requirements Engineering and Project Management in Quality Assurance (REProManQA) will take place in Luxembourg in June 2006.

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Agenda

The workshop took place at the IAE Paris, in room WS3.
Address: IAE (Institut d'Administration des Entreprises), 21 rue Broca, 75005 Paris

Morning Session

09:00-09:40 Lena Karlsson, Björn Regnell, Thomas Thelin: A Case Study in Retrospective Analysis of Release Planning in an Agile Project (PDF)
09:40-10:05 Andriy Miranskyy: Managing Software Invalidity Risk (PDF)
10:05-10:30 Siva Moorthy: Manage your Requirements, Manage your Project (PDF)

11:00-11:25 Dirk Bechtold: Requirement Analysis and Agility (PDF)
11:25-11:50 A. Herrmann, R. Fahney, R. Weißbach, C. Rückert: Clear Role and Process Definitions as a Means to Analyze and Understand Conflicts between Project Management and Requirements Engineering (PDF)
11:50-12:30 Maya Daneva, Roel Wieringa: A Conceptual Framework for Research in Cross-organizational ERP Cost Estimation

Afternoon Session

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Targeted Attendees

The workshop invited participants, researchers as well as practitioners from industry who are responsible for or involved in requirements specification or project management. A fifty-to-fifty mix of industry and research participants would be ideal for an exchange of knowledge and ideas in both directions.

The workshop was open to all conference participants.

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Important Dates

Important dates:
15th june 2005: Paper submission
20th july 2005: Notification sent to author
31st july 2005: End of early registration reduction
1st august 2005: Camera-ready papers
30st august 2005: Workshop

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Program Committee


Sushil Birla General Motors
John Favaro independent consultant, Italy
Ralf Fahney independent consultant, Germany
Andrea Herrmann University of Heidelberg, Germany
Frank Houdek DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany
Marjo Kauppinen Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Sari Kujala Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Soren Lauesen IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Uolevi Nikula Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
Barbara Paech University of Heidelberg, Germany
James Robertson The Atlantic Systems Guild, United Kingdom
Didar Zowghi University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

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Workshop Organizers


Andrea Herrmann

University of Heidelberg, Germany
Marjo Kauppinen Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Sari Kujala Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Soren Lauesen IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Barbara Paech   
University of Heidelberg, Germany
James Robertson The Atlantic Systems Guild, United Kingdom

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