Design, implementation, and evaluation of an ICT-supported collaboration methodology for distributed requirements determination

Dibbern, Jens; Geisser, Michael; Hildenbrand, Tobias; Heinzl, Armin (June 2009). Design, implementation, and evaluation of an ICT-supported collaboration methodology for distributed requirements determination (Working Paper Series in Business Administration and Information Systems 05/2009). Mannheim: University of Mannheim, Department of Business Administration and Information Systems

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As information systems development becomes more distributed, information and communication technology (ICT) has become crucial to overcome distance and to enable collaboration between system users and analysts. This study presents the design, implementation, and experimental evaluation of a new technology-supported collaborative methodology for requirements determination. The new ICT-supported methodology enables the elicitation, analysis, specification, and validation of requirements in a distributed environment. Its design follows the theoretical principles of Te’eni’s (2001) cognitiveaffective model of organizational communication for IT design and combines established methods as well as techniques for requirements identification, formulation, dependency determination, prioritization, and selection in a coherent and innovative way. The resulting prototype is professionally implemented and evaluated in an experiment. The experiment is the first to compare the performance of traditional ways of communication via interviews and document exchange with that of communication via an Internet-based collaboration platform for requirements determination. The results show that, both, the efficiency of the overall requirements determination process as well as the overall quality of the resulting requirements, are higher when using the new collaborative methodology. In terms of quality, efficiency, the user and analyst perspectives need to be distinguished. While the effort for requirements elicitation increases for the analysts, this up-front investment pays off in terms of significantly lower effort for the later specification and validation of requirements. In contrast, the users benefit in particular from lower effort during requirements elicitation and analysis.

Item Type:

Working Paper

Division/Institute:

03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Business Management > Institute of Information Systems
03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Business Management > Institute of Information Systems > Information Engineering

UniBE Contributor:

Dibbern, Jens, Heinzl, Armin Horst

Subjects:

000 Computer science, knowledge & systems
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics
600 Technology
600 Technology > 650 Management & public relations

Series:

Working Paper Series in Business Administration and Information Systems

Publisher:

University of Mannheim, Department of Business Administration and Information Systems

Language:

English

Submitter:

Gowthaman Udayakumar

Date Deposited:

02 Dec 2019 12:34

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:33

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.135888

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/135888

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