A framework for understanding creativity in requirements engineering

Nguyen, Lemai; Shanks, Graeme

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2008.09.002

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“…Typically, research into creativity has occurred in a general sense (such as (Dorst & Cross, 2001;Gero, 1996)) or in the context of the earlier design stages (such as (Nguyen & Shanks, 2009;Shai, Reich, & Rubin, 2009)). The focus of this work is on the less-researched stages defined here as embodiment and detail, and henceforth referred to as later stages.…”

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Analysing creative behaviour in the later stage design process

2013

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Creativity is widely seen as an important subject in the study of engineering design. This paper presents a framework and coding scheme for the analysis of creative designer behaviour within the later stage engineering design process, validated through a longitudinal study. By classifying the tasks that designers complete throughout the design process, analysis has demonstrated two different approaches to creative behaviour in later stage design, dependent on the way in which designers identify, develop and use knowledge and design variables. Through such analysis, the understanding required to develop specific and particularly appropriate methods of designer support can be developed, dependent on the stage of the design process and particular approach of the designer.

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“…Nguyen and Shanks [17] describe requirements elicitation as an ill-structured problem due to its openness, its context poorly understood and the existence of multiple domains. For Nguyen, solving problems in requirements elicitation requires a complex and dynamic social interaction between domain specialists and developers.…”

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Knowledge Management for Informally Structured Domains: Challenges and Proposals

Olmos-Sánchez¹,

Rodas-Osollo²

2017

Knowledge Management Strategies and Applications

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Eliciting requirements of products or solutions in informally structured domains is a highly creative and complex activity due to the inherent characteristics of these domains, such as the great quantities of tacit knowledge used by domain specialists, the dynamic interaction between domain specialists and their environment in order to solve problems, the necessity of these solutions of products to be developed by teams of specialists and the asymmetry of knowledge between domain specialists and requirements engineers. The knowledge management discipline promotes an integrated approach in order to face these challenges; therefore, a strategy for addressing requirements elicitation that incorporates techniques and methods of this discipline has been proposed as a serious approach to deal with those challenges. The valuable results of the application of the strategy in real cases prove empirical insights about its utility.

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“…A criatividade pode ser definida como um processo mental que envolve a geração de ideias inéditas e inovadoras [14] e pode ser classificada como exploratória, combinacional ou transformacional [15]. No contexto da engenharia de requisitos, Maiden [16] afirma que essa classificação varia de acordo com as técnicas e heurísticas utilizadas.…”

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Analisando uma técnica de elicitação baseada na criatividade combinacional - um estudo comparativo

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2017

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Resumo:Diante da crescente competitividade do mercado, a Engenharia de Requisitos tem buscado, através de técnicas de criatividade, fornecer meios para elicitação de requisitos úteis e inovadores. Dentre estas técnicas há a criatividade combinacional, que possibilita a produção de novas ideias através da combinação de ideias antigas não familiares. Trabalhos nesta linha têm demonstrado bons resultados, mas poucos comparam esta técnica com outras. Assim, o objetivo deste trabalho é comparar os resultados alcançados na elicitação usando e não usando uma abordagem combinacional. A elicitação teve a participação de 17 usuários assíduos de um sistema acadêmico, dos quais 9 utilizaram a abordagem combinacional e 8 uma abordagem baseada em entrevista. A elicitação foi realizada numa reunião, na qual os participantes criaram, individualmente, 42 requisitos válidos, 21 por cada técnica. Destes, apenas 9 foram avaliados como úteis e originais. Em termos quantitativos, não houve grande diferença na quantidade de requisitos ao mesmo tempo úteis e originais que foram gerados pelas duas técnicas. Entretanto, mais requisitos úteis foram gerados com a técnica de entrevista. Em termos qualitativos, os participantes sugeriram que uma abordagem mista facilitaria a elaboração de ideias inovadoras.Palavras-chave: Criatividade Combinacional, Elicitação de Requisitos, Entrevista, Estudo Empí-rico. Abstract:Faced with the market's growing competitiveness, Requirements Engineering has sought, through creativity techniques, to provide means to elicit useful and innovative requirements. Among these techniques, there is the combinational creativity, which allows the development of new ideas through the combination of non-familiar old ideas. Works that follow this technique have shown good results, but only a few of them compare this technique to others. Thus, the goal of this work is to compare the results achieved in elicitation using and not using a combinational approach. The elicitation process had, as participants, 17 regular users of an academic system, 9 of which used the combinational approach while the remaining 8 used an interview-based approach. The elicitation was carried out in a meeting, in which the participants individually created 42 valid requirements, 21 for each technique. Out of the requirements that were created, only 9 were considered useful and original. In quantitative terms, there was not much difference in the number of requirements that were both original and useful generated by each of the two techniques. However, a greater number of useful requirements were generated using the interview technique. In qualitative terms, participants suggested that to use a mixed approach would favor the creativity.

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A framework for understanding creativity in requirements engineering

Cited by 114 publications

References 48 publications

Analysing creative behaviour in the later stage design process

Analysing creative behaviour in the later stage design process

Knowledge Management for Informally Structured Domains: Challenges and Proposals

Analisando uma técnica de elicitação baseada na criatividade combinacional - um estudo comparativo

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