Ian Alexander:
Papers on Requirements Engineering

Requirements Humour

Requirements Proverbs

web page, 1996 onwards
 

An Engineer Looks at ... Democracy

article, 2007

An Engineer Looks at ... Rumour

article, 2007

The Ant & The Grasshopper

Column for Requirenautics Quarterly, 2005

Old English Requirements Met

Column for Requirenautics Quarterly, 2004

Requirements, Myths, & Magic

Column for Requirenautics Quarterly, 2002

The Glamour of Formalisation

Column for Requirenautics Quarterly, 2002

The Orthodox Barber, or What Tools Shouldn't Be Used For

Column for Requirenautics Quarterly, 2001

Engineering the Requirements ... for my Loft

Column for Requirenautics Quarterly, 1999

 

Requirements Discovery

Making It All Fit Together (a Metamodel for Requirements Discovery)

Article for RQNG, October 2010

Model-Based Requirements Discovery

Invited Talk, RuSEC, Moscow, September 2010 (.pdf)

Моделеориентированное_выявление_требований

Invited Talk, RuSEC, Moscow, September 2010 (.pdf, in Russian)

Piecing Together the Requirements Jigsaw

Invited Keynote Talk, REFSQ, Essen, July 2010 (.pdf)

Perfect Requirement Discovery: Way Bigger Than It Seems

IET RM Blog, February 2009

Discovering Requirements

Book, February 2009

Discovery

Article for RQ, September 2007

Requirements Management

Not Exactly a Requirements Blog

Occasional Informal Articles inspired by events

 

Learning to Drive, the Rumsfeld Way

'RE-flections' Article for RQ, September 2007

What are Requirements Made of?

Leading Article for Requirements Networking Group (RQNG), July 2007

Books for a Desert Island

Column for Automated Software Engineering Journal, 2007

One Counter-Example is Enough

Column for Requirements Quarterly, December 2005

Bleach and Soap

Column for Requirements Quarterly, June 2005

Ta kontroll över kraven (Take control of your requirements, in Swedish)

article for Dagens Industri, a Swedish magazine, November 2002

What is RE Anyway?

Column for Requirenautics Quarterly, 2001

Requirements are EITHER Needs OR Specifications

Column for Requirenautics Quarterly, 2001

Visualising Requirements in UML

article for Telelogic NewsByte, 2001

Is There Such a Thing as a User Requirement?

article in Requirenautics Quarterly, 1999;
republished in Requirements Engineering (1999) 4:221-223

A Historical Perspective on Requirements

paper in Requirenautics Quarterly, 1997

Stakeholders

Building What Stakeholders Desire

Point Counter Point, IEEE Software, March/April 2007, pages 62-65

Surrogacy

Article for Requirenautics Quarterly, Summer 2004

Stakeholders without Tears: Understanding Project Sociology by Modeling Stakeholders

column, co-authored, in IEEE Software, Vol.21, No.1, Jan/Feb 2004, 23-27

Stakeholders - Who is Your System For?

article for Computing & Control Engineering, April 2003

Goals

Discovering Requirements by Trade-offs

article for IET Engineering & Technology magazine, October 2009

Real User Goals, orYour Mother Wouldn't Like It

blog, 20 August 2009

Know Your Goals

article for Telelogic Innovate, 2002

Rationale

Modelling Argumentation, Toulmin-style

article for Telelogic Innovate, 2003

Scenarios

Scenarios, Stories, Use Cases

edited & co-authored book, Wiley 2004

Scenarios, an Introduction from 'Scenarios, Stories, Use Cases', Wiley 2004

Short Version condensed from 10,000 down to 750 words

Requirements and Testing: Two Sides of the Same Coin (Use Cases, Test Cases)

A Version of this Article appeared in Telelogic Innovate, September 2002

Software Engineering

Extreme Programming - Rapid Requirements

article in Requirenautics Quarterly, 1999

The Limits of eXtreme Programming

Contribution to the first IEEE Computer Society DynaBook (2000)

Measurable Requirements

paper at Dev-Test, London, 1999

Against Fashion in Engineering

Column for Requirenautics Quarterly, 1998

Evolution of a Maintainable Quality System

putting a process model to work, 1997

Systems Engineering

Model-Based Requirements Discovery

Invited Talk, Russian Systems Engineering Conference (RuSEC), Moscow, September 2010 (.pdf)

Моделеориентированное_выявление_требований

Invited Talk, RuSEC, Moscow, September 2010 (.pdf, in Russian)

Modelling Argumentation, Toulmin-style

article for Telelogic Innovate, 2003

Systems Engineering: -ilities for Victory

article for Requirenautics Quarterly, March 2005

Systems Engineering

introductory essay, 2001

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

article for Telelogic NewsByte, April 2001

Tools: DOORS & DXL

The Perfect RM Tool - Harder than it Looks

 IET RM Blog, February 2009

Getting Started with DOORS DXL

article for Telelogic NewsByte, April 2001

Why I Use DOORS & DXL for System Modelling

article, April 2002

Graphics with DOORS DXL

article for Telelogic NewsByte, April 2001

Links with DOORS DXL

article for Telelogic NewsByte, 2001

Regular Expressions with DOORS DXL

article for Telelogic Innovate, 2002

The DOORS Success Story

report for Impact Project, 2004