Jane Cleland-Huang

The challenges of eliciting requirements in global projects can be addressed through deliberate up-front planning processes that take into consideration, people, technology, meeting locations, communication, workflow processes, and documentation needs. The authors present a practical approach to support this planning process. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/eLk66zSFS6c is an audio podcast in which author Jane Cleland-Huang provides an audio recording of the Requirements column, coauthored with Paula Laurent, in which she discusses how the challenges of eliciting requirements in global projects can be addressed through deliberate upfront planning processes that take into consideration people, technology, meeting locations, communication, workflow processes, and documentation needs.

In interviews conducted last October, this issue's guest editors, Mehdi Mirakhorli and Jane Cleland-Huang, spoke with Daniel Dvorak and Jan Bosch, who shared their perspectives as software architects on the interweaving of requirements and architecture. Dvorak is the lead for the NASA software architecture review board and has worked on various technology development projects and space missions, including Deep Space One and Mars Science Laboratory. Bosch is a software architect and agilest with a wealth of experience designing and implementing software-as-a-service and Web 2.0 solutions that typically provide services to hundreds of thousands, even millions, of customers.