Today, every product has a “crowd”; a very large, heterogeneous and physically distributed set of users interacting online. This is true for software applications (especially mobile apps), but also for any kind of hardware and even everyday objects. Anyone who knows how to deal with this crowd can channel the power of literally everyone and

It is undisputed that professional software and system development is no longer conceivable without tools. In addition to tools for development and quality assurance, tools for managing and tracking requirements are now in use at many companies, as planning and controlling projects is almost impossible without a clear overview of the desired product properties. In

In its Circular 10/2018, the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) defined the insurance supervisory requirements for IT (VAIT). With immediate effect, these guidelines provide guidelines according to which insurers must organize their IT development and IT operations. With regard to “requirements management” (also known as “requirements engineering” or “business analysis”), there are a number of

Motivation Requirement validation is one of the four main activities of requirements engineering. The aim of this review is to ensure at an early stage that the (document) requirements on the one hand meet the actual wishes and needs of the stakeholders and on the other hand have the necessary quality to enable further development

Abstract Recent studies show that many companies are still struggling to carry out efficient and effective activities in the field of requirements engineering. Company-specific, tailor-made requirements processes have great potential to meet this challenge. This paper describes a novel approach that enables the semiautomatic definition of company-specific requirements processes and the use of tools to

Introduction Requirements management with JIRA Atlassian’s JIRA has made a remarkable entry into a variety of companies over the past few years and it is more than a feeling that almost every company in which software development plays a role now uses JIRA (or similar products like Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server). Originally used as an