Requirements management, one of the most collaboration-intensive activities in software development, presents significant difficulties when stakeholders are distributed, as in today's global projects. After a review of requirements management in current work practices, the authors describe EGRET, a collaborative requirements management tool for distributed software development teams. They present their design motivations for EGRET, a preliminary evaluation of its usability, and directions for further enhancement. This article is part of a special issue on Global Software Development.
Index Terms:
requirements management, distributed development, collaboration, tool support
Citation:
Vibha Sinha, Bikram Sengupta, Satish Chandra, "Enabling Collaboration in Distributed Requirements Management," IEEE Software, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 52-61, Sep./Oct. 2006, doi:10.1109/MS.2006.123