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Instructional Design of a Requirements Engineering Education Course for Professional Engineers

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Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments

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As offshore development has become common for software companies, those companies have started to concentrate their engineers’ effort upon the early development phase of software. Within this context, it is important to educate professional engineers to master all aspects of requirements engineering. It is not easy to master the various aspect all at once. However, we can expect professional engineers to study methods on their own if they believe that learning the methods is important for them or their projects. We have developed a two-and-a-half-day role-playing workshop for professional engineers that focuses on teaching the importance of requirements engineering, as well as the background, rationale, and purpose of the requirements to guarantee success in their projects. We start this paper with an overview of requirements engineering and its techniques, and then, introduce the instructional design of our course for professional engineers. We also present the results of an actual workshop, which showed engineers could earned clients’ mindsets and the importance of the rationale of requirements.

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  1. Graduate School of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba,  

    Takako Nakatani

  2. National Institute of Informatics,  

    Toshihiko Tsumaki

  3. The University of Tokyo,  

    Tetsuo Tamai

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Nakatani, T., Tsumaki, T., Tamai, T. (2010). Instructional Design of a Requirements Engineering Education Course for Professional Engineers. In: Tsihrintzis, G.A., Jain, L.C. (eds) Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13396-1_6

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