Requirement Analysis Evolution through Patterns

This paper presents a strategy, based on requirement patterns (RP), aimed at improving the requirement analysis discipline by allowing business analysts (BA) to produce more reliable SW requirements in a significantly shorter time, minimising the overall requirement risks. In numerous business organisations, IT systems are increasing their strategic significance. In extremely competitive environments, such as investment banking -where this methodology has been tested- modern and advanced IT systems can enable the organisation to obtain and to maintain a predominant position in the market, which in turn results in a greater ROI. Regrettably a number of academic and industrial studies depict a catastrophic picture about SW projects: most of them are likely to fail and, logically, the probability of failure grows with the size of the project. The project failure factor varies within a range of 50% - 70%. Furthermore, such studies clearly show that requirements is the area where the major...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: SEKE
• Authors: Luca Vetti Tagliati, Roger Johnson, George Roussos
• Keywords: IT Systems, Overall Requirement Risks, Requirement Analysis Discipline, SEKE 2007