Objective
Proper understanding of a customer's requirements for a system are crucial if problems such as cost/time overruns and re-work are to be avoided, and customer satisfaction is to be ensured. Unclear, incomplete and changing requirements must be enhanced and managed for a project to be successful, for both the customer and supplier.
The aim is to establish an improved technique which will assist customer and supplier to gain a better understanding of initial and changing requirements so that systems are delivered on time, to cost, and actually meeting the customer's real need.
THE EXPERIMENT
The experiment defines a new requirements approach based on synergy between three strands:
1. human interaction skills
2. RAD and JAD
3. formalised requirements management
This approach will be used on a representative project, typically the simulation of a sensor or a moving body. The experiences on this project will be compared with that of a similar project using existing requirements techniques.
DERA employs about 12,000 scientists from many disciplines. Its Software Engineering Centre, which will carry out this project, employs about 200 staff, all involved in software development to industry standards. Typical projects have a team of about 6 or 8 people, but can be much larger.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
The new technique is expected to be adopted as standard within the SEC, providing improved performance and customer satisfaction. The SEC has a role to promote best practice throughout DERA and more widely and will actively disseminate the project results.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software development
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
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Coordinator
GU14 0LX Farnborough
United Kingdom
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