Workshop description:
Requirements engineering usually is regarded as a technical discipline and project management
as a managerial activity. They are often treated separately, although in real
software projects they are interrelated in both directions and in many ways.
Project management usually treats requirements engineering as a black box.
On the other hand requirements engineering only incoherently treats management constraints
like project scope, communication issues, risk and change management.
Project success would profit from a much tighter integration.
Project management should not only assure the necessary frame for successful requirements engineering,
but also impose restrictions on the requirements engineering process and the identified requirements.
In the opposite direction the requirements engineer should support project success
by providing the manager with important information like status of requirements, risks and problems.
Expected Outcomes were:
Characterization of roles, activities and processes, especially at the interface of RE and project management:
What does the project manager deliver to the requirements engineer and vice versa? How do both roles and disciplines
play together in the field of change and risk management?
Identification of benefits and risks in the interplay of requirements engineering and project management.
Experience reports about the interaction of RE and project management, leading to hypotheses as a basis of further research.
You can download the papers presented during the morning session in the "agenda" section below.
During the afternoon session, interesting topics at the interface of RE and PM were identified,
discussed and prioritized.
One of the results of REProMan was a list of four issues having been voted to be the most important ones which should be treated in future: process (especially quality assurance), stakeholder selection, requirements prioritization, effort estimation.
A following
Workshop on the Interplay of Requirements Engineering and Project Management in Quality Assurance (REProManQA)
will take place in Luxembourg in June 2006.
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The workshop took place at the IAE Paris, in room WS3.
Address: IAE (Institut d'Administration des Entreprises), 21 rue Broca, 75005 Paris
Morning Session
Afternoon Session
- We synthesized the ideas and identified open questions for further research.
- Summary and Conclusion
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The workshop invited participants, researchers as well as practitioners from industry who are responsible
for or involved in requirements specification or project management. A fifty-to-fifty mix of industry and
research participants would be ideal for an exchange of knowledge and ideas in both directions.
The workshop was open to all conference participants.
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Important dates:
| 15th june 2005: |
Paper submission |
| 20th july 2005: |
Notification sent to author |
| 31st july 2005: |
End of early registration reduction |
| 1st august 2005: |
Camera-ready papers |
| 30st august 2005: |
Workshop |
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| Sushil Birla |
General Motors |
| John Favaro |
independent consultant, Italy |
| Ralf Fahney |
independent consultant, Germany |
| Andrea Herrmann |
University of Heidelberg, Germany |
| Frank Houdek |
DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany |
| Marjo Kauppinen |
Helsinki University of Technology, Finland |
| Sari Kujala |
Helsinki University of Technology, Finland |
| Soren Lauesen |
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Uolevi Nikula |
Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland |
| Barbara Paech |
University of Heidelberg, Germany |
| James Robertson |
The Atlantic Systems Guild, United Kingdom |
| Didar Zowghi |
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia |
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