A Heuristic Approach for Supporting Innovation in Requirements Engineering

The first activity that most software development projects take is to elicit and document the project’s requirements. Requirement elicitation is one of the most critical activities in the software development process. The ability to do it well is crucial to the project’s success. The experience has shown that poor requirements frequently lead to rework, cost overruns and even project failure. Although several tools, processes, models, methods and frameworks have been developed to help with requirement elicitation, there is much less support for innovation through Requirement Engineering in software product development process. In this paper, we describe an approach to design innovative software. Innovative softwares are products that differ of the existing products and that aggregate value for customers or end users.