Reasoning on Requirements Knowledge to Support Creativity

Developing innovative products is an important challenge for companies these days. Meanwhile it is in requirements engineering widely recognized that requirements elicitation has to go beyond mere recording of knowledge, rather is has to be an active process where new ideas are created. Thus, creativity is an important issue in requirements engineering. While so far tool support for creativity focused mainly on recording the creative outcome or providing relevant knowledge, we will describe an approach where tool support is used to actively support people in the creation of ideas.