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More than requirements: Applying requirements engineering techniques to the challenge of setting corporate intellectual policy, an experience report

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Author

  • David Callele
  • Krzysztof Wnuk

Editor

  • Dimitris Karagiannis

Summary, in English

Creation and adoption of corporate policies requires significant commitment of scarce senior management resources. In the absence of processes and tools, convergence upon final policy and may not be achieved in a timely manner. Significant similarities between policy and requirements documents suggest that requirements engineering techniques could be used to generate policy. However, neither evidence of feasibility of this approach nor theoretical investigation is present in the research literature. This paper reports upon our experience from an exploratory study where well-established requirements engineering methodologies were applied to generate corporate intellectual property policy. Interview, brainstorming and survey techniques were used to successfully apply structure and process to the task, generating a new corporate intellectual property policy that met or exceeded all stakeholder goals. The materials gathered during stakeholder interactions and analysis not only provided functional guidance for the policy itself, but also non-functional guidance with respect to the diversity of stakeholder opinions and the strength with which opinions were held. This knowledge greatly facilitated the creation of draft policy: this insider knowledge increased our expectation of stakeholder acceptance and also facilitated subsequent negotiation efforts. The feasibility of applying RE techniques to crafting corporate policy has been demonstrated and the results show sufficient promise that further investigation is warranted.

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

35-42

Publication/Series

[Host publication title missing]

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Topic

  • Computer Science

Keywords

  • Requirements elicitation
  • negotiation
  • corporate policy
  • intellectual property

Conference name

Fourth International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Law (RELAW), 2011

Conference date

2011-09-30

Conference place

Trento, Italy

Status

Published

Project

  • UPITER - Efficient requirements architectures in platform-based requirements management for mobile terminals

Research group

  • Communication Systems

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-1-4577-0947-0