TY - GEN
T1 - Asynchronous negotiation and collaboration of software requirements for an emergency response information system
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2005
AU - Campbell, Catherine Lowry
AU - Van De Walle, Bartel A.
AU - Deek, Fadi P.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Negotiation and collaboration during the requirements stage of the software engineering process are fundamental to developing successful software products. Groups of stakeholders work together to come to agreement on the most important requirements to be sent forward for implementation. Distributed software engineering is becoming the norm rather than the exception, yet the requirements elicitation and definition process is normally conducted face to face. This paper describes an empirical study to investigate the relationship between structured task and specified negotiation steps within an asynchronous environment. The results reveal that these structures can have a positive impact on solution quality but a negative impact on process satisfaction, although following a negotiation sequence and task structure can help asynchronous groups come to agreement faster. Details of the experimental procedures, statistical analysis, and discussion of the results of the experiment are presented, as are suggestions for improving this work and a plan for future research.
AB - Negotiation and collaboration during the requirements stage of the software engineering process are fundamental to developing successful software products. Groups of stakeholders work together to come to agreement on the most important requirements to be sent forward for implementation. Distributed software engineering is becoming the norm rather than the exception, yet the requirements elicitation and definition process is normally conducted face to face. This paper describes an empirical study to investigate the relationship between structured task and specified negotiation steps within an asynchronous environment. The results reveal that these structures can have a positive impact on solution quality but a negative impact on process satisfaction, although following a negotiation sequence and task structure can help asynchronous groups come to agreement faster. Details of the experimental procedures, statistical analysis, and discussion of the results of the experiment are presented, as are suggestions for improving this work and a plan for future research.
KW - Asynchronous communication
KW - Collaborative software engineering
KW - Emergency response information systems
KW - Negotiation support
KW - Requirements engineering
KW - Software requirements
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84869460863
SN - 9076971099
SN - 9789076971094
T3 - Proceedings of ISCRAM 2005 - 2nd International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
SP - 5
EP - 11
BT - Proceedings of ISCRAM 2005 - 2nd International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
PB - Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium
Y2 - 18 April 2005 through 20 April 2005
ER -