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1.
Entrepreneurship and
BUSINESS STRATEGY
We are developing new typologies of the
software industry, and investigating how this categorization affects marketing,
financing, business strategy, and technology adoption. We are also researching
the factors that influence success and
failure in software startups.
2.
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Requirements Management
The Capability Maturity Model
(CMMI) movement has tended to cause companies to over-methodize, while the agile
programming movement has tended to cause companies to under-methodize. The
result is that requirements are either over-analyzed (and over-specified) or are
totally ignored. This research attempts to create advice concerning the "right"
level at which requirements should be addressed, with emphasis on recognizing
that the "right" level is different for every project.
3.
alignment of Requirements with business goals
Businesses/organizations
exist for some of combination of four reasons: (a) to fulfill a humanitarian
goal (i.e., to make life more enjoyable/sustainable/worthwhile for humans or
perhaps other non-human biospheres), (b) to create a financial return for their
investors/owners/shareholders, (c) to help customers/clients succeed in their
own missions (whatever they are), and (d) to improve the well-being of their
employees. Meanwhile, requirements engineering is usually discussed as a
technical process with engineering goals. So, the question is: how can we
improve the requirements process so that the business's goals are supported. One
small part of this is the creation of the discipline of triage.
5.
Uniform Theories of
Requirements specification
(joint with
Vincenzo Gervasi and Didar Zowghi)
This research is creating a
theory of relativity for requirements specifications.
6.
UNDERSTANDING/Modeling THE Requirements elicitation TECHNIQUE SELECTION
PROCESS
(joint with Ann Hickey)
We are understanding and modeling the technique selection process
used during elicitation.
Part of this research is to improve our understanding
of how the world's expert
analysts actually practice elicitation.
7.
Requirements REsearch & Practice trends
(joint with Oscar Dieste, Ann Hickey, Natalia Juristo, and Ana Moreno)
We are conducting a
number of analyses, including (a) trends in topics of interest among
researchers in academe and industry as a function of time, (b) trends in
requirements engineering publication outlets as a function of time, and
(c) trends among requirements researchers as a function of time.
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