Large-Scale Requirements Analysis Revisited: The need for Understanding the Political Ecology of Requirements Engineering |
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Authors: | Mark Bergman John Leslie King Kalle Lyytinen |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, California, USA, US;(2) School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, US;(3) Department of Information Systems, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, US |
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Abstract: | This paper addresses the political nature of requirements for large systems, and argues that requirements engineering theory and practice must become more engaged with these issues.
It argues that large-scale system requirements is constructed through a political decision process, whereby requirements emerge
as a set of mappings between consecutive solution spaces justified by a problem space of concern to a set of principals. These
solution spaces are complex socio-technical ensembles that often exhibit non-linear behaviour in expansion due to domain complexity
and political ambiguity. Stabilisation of solutions into agreed-on specifications occurs only through the exercise of organisational
power. Effective requirements engineering in such cases is most effectively seen as a form of heterogeneous engineering in which technical, social, economic and institutional factors are brought together in a current solution space that provides
the baseline for construction of proposed new solution spaces. |
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Keywords: | :Functional requirements – Heterogeneous engineering – Political requirements – System failures – System requirements |
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