On the Requirements Engineer Role.

The article discusses the importance of the role of requirements engineering (RE) and requirements engineers in computer software development and presents information from a study conducted by the authors that queried information technology (IT) professionals from several business enterprises. Accor...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 64; no. 6; pp. 69 - 76
Main Authors: FRANCH, XAVIER, PALOMARES, CRISTINA, GORSCHEK, TONY
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jun2021
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Summary:The article discusses the importance of the role of requirements engineering (RE) and requirements engineers in computer software development and presents information from a study conducted by the authors that queried information technology (IT) professionals from several business enterprises. According to the study, organizations rely upon requirements engineers in all facets of projects, requirements engineers perform tasks outside of RE tasks, and larger firms define the RE role better than small companies.