Title :
A facilitator method for upstream design activities with diverse stakeholders
Author :
Gonzales, Regina M. ; Wolf, Alexander L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
The paper presents a method that can be used for the elicitation and specification of requirements and high level design. It supports stakeholder based modeling, rapid feasibility feed back to marketing, and the interpersonal dynamics that are necessary to develop a product. The method centers on the role of the facilitator, an independent agent whose purpose is to build the Integrated System Model (ISM). The ISM is the result of merging the independent system views from all stakeholders at any given abstraction level. Formulation of this method was based on the real world experience of developing a complex, high technology medical product with critical time to market pressures. It has proven to be a practical approach to the evolution of requirements definition and provides a necessary link to the marketing aspect of a product
Keywords :
formal specification; medical computing; systems analysis; Integrated System Model; abstraction level; critical time to market pressures; diverse stakeholders; facilitator method; high level design; high technology medical product; independent agent; independent system views; interpersonal dynamics; marketing aspect; rapid feasibility feed back; real world experience; requirements definition; requirements specification; stakeholder based modeling; upstream design activities; Biomedical engineering; Computer science; Contracts; Design methodology; Feedback; Laboratories; Merging; Prototypes; Software engineering; Time to market;
Conference_Titel :
Requirements Engineering, 1996., Proceedings of the Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Colorado Springs, CO
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7252-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICRE.1996.491444
