Decision Problems in Requirements Negotiations

Abstract

Requirements negotiations are iterative processes, in which involved parties with (usually conflicting) individual goals jointly seek to reach an overall goal, namely agreeing on a software development process and outcome (Lenz et al. 2015). One of their main characteristics is that involved parties need to make decisions during these processes (Aurum and Wohlin 2003; Lenz et al. 2015). Due to domain-related characteristics of requirements negotiations, they differ in terms of the role of the negotiating parties, the type of negotiation issues, and thus the decisions to be made.

Co-Author: Prof. Mareike Schoop, PhD

Reprinted by permission from Springer Nature: Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland: Decision Problems in Requirements Negotiations – Identifying the Underlying Structures. In: Mareike Schoop, D. Marc Kilgour (eds.) Group Decision and Negotiation. A Socio-Technical Perspective. 17th International Conference, LNBIP 293, 2017, pp. 120-131, Annika Lenz, Mareike Schoop, available at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-63546-0_9