SBIR Phase I: BrainStorm - Collaborative Customer Requirements Elicitation for Distributed Software Development

SBIR 第一阶段：头脑风暴 - 分布式软件开发的协作客户需求获取

• 批准号: 0611053
• 负责人: Venkata Polineni
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Serebrum Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-01 至 2006-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0611053&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; BrainStorm; Collaborative; Customer

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will investigate methods for improving the process of requirements elicitation for geographically distributed software development teams. Most projects fail because requirements are not clearly articulated and captured. This project seeks to identify the methods that facilitate the elicitation of well-defined requirements, reduce complexity in the requirements process and evaluate the technical feasibility of developing a solution to address the problem. The approach is to (1) study the methods involved in requirements elicitation and their applicability to a distributed environment, (2) develop an algorithm to monitor and reduce process complexity and (3) investigate the technical feasibility of a collaborative platform with role-based access control. The anticipated outcomes from the project include the development of role-based templates that guide business stakeholders to articulate requirements through an algorithmically driven requirements elicitation process and a prototype for a Web-based collaboration platform with integrated role-based access control that enables this process.The proposed activity addresses a broad need in software engineering as well as in general product development. While several requirements management tools exist, eliciting unambiguous requirements from the business stakeholders is a process that is neither well-defined nor served by existing tools. As such, the value of such a solution to an enterprise includes ensuring higher probability of project success and a reduced time-to-market. In both the government and corporate sectors, this will result in optimized project expenditure and a product that meets the needs of the end user. The project also enhances the scientific understanding related to complexities in distributed software development and extends the current technological advances related to collaboration and security into an underserved domain of software engineering, namely, requirements elicitation.

这个小型企业创新研究 (SBIR) 第一阶段项目将研究改进地理分布的软件开发团队的需求获取过程的方法。大多数项目失败是因为需求没有明确表达和捕获。该项目旨在确定有助于引发明确定义的需求、降低需求过程的复杂性并评估开发解决问题的解决方案的技术可行性的方法。该方法是（1）研究需求获取所涉及的方法及其对分布式环境的适用性，（2）开发一种算法来监控和降低流程复杂性，（3）研究具有基于角色的访问控制的协作平台的技术可行性。该项目的预期成果包括开发基于角色的模板，引导业务利益相关者通过算法驱动的需求获取流程来阐明需求，以及基于 Web 的协作平台原型，该平台具有集成的基于角色的访问控制，可实现此流程。所提议的活动满足了软件工程以及一般产品开发中的广泛需求。虽然存在多种需求管理工具，但从业务利益相关者那里获取明确的需求是一个既没有明确定义也没有现有工具服务的过程。因此，这种解决方案对企业的价值包括确保更高的项目成功概率和缩短上市时间。在政府和企业部门，这将优化项目支出并提供满足最终用户需求的产品。该项目还增强了对分布式软件开发复杂性的科学理解，并将当前与协作和安全相关的技术进步扩展到软件工程服务不足的领域，即需求获取。