Experimental Evaluation of Wiki Technology and the Shaper Role in Rapid Interdisciplinary Requirements Negotiation

Author

Di Wu ; Da Yang ; Koolmanojwong, Supannika ; Boehm, B.W.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

fYear

2009

fDate

5-8 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

Abstract

The challenges driven by multi-culture, multi-discipline stakeholders collaborating in a rapidly changing global environment necessitates an easily approachable mechanism for negotiating WinWin outcomes. Wiki has become an enabling technology for interdisciplinary collaboration. Following our initial development of a wiki-based requirements negotiation support tool - WikiWinWin, we experimented with using WikiWinWin to negotiate requirements in 20 real-client projects at University of Southern California (USC). Our initial results indicated better project outcomes were achieved as the use of the tool increased, as compared with the previous EasyWinWin tool.

Keywords

negotiation support systems; Wiki technology; WikiWinWin; interdisciplinary collaboration; multiculture multidiscipline stakeholders; negotiation support tool; rapid interdisciplinary requirements negotiation; shaper role; Collaborative software; Collaborative tools; Costs; Decision theory; International collaboration; Internet; Programming; Risk analysis; Software engineering; Utility theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 2009. HICSS '09. 42nd Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Big Island, HI

ISSN

1530-1605

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3450-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2009.206

Filename

4755404