This paper investigates the contribution of stakeholder collaboration during an open source software migration using a case study. The case study is based on the Presidential National Commission, a South African government department that migrated from proprietary software to open source software in 2007. The organization was one of the few that migrated to open source software as part of a Sou...

In this paper, we introduce a documentation framework for architecture decisions. This framework consists of four viewpoint definitions using the conventions of ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010, the new international standard for the description of system and software architectures. The four viewpoints, a Decision Detail viewpoint, a Decision Relationship viewpoint, a Decision Chronology viewpoint, and a Dec...

Requirements engineering necessitates the analysis of relationships among the requirements of system stakeholders. Poor analysis of these relationships has led to numerous failures. To improve such analysis, researchers have created models and methods for recording, analyzing, and modifying stakeholder requirements. However, the critical aspect of resolving conflicts among stakeholder requireme...

A number of theoretical perspectives have been developed across time to provide an understanding of the reasons for management’s decision to report information to stakeholders. For example, some stakeholder research is normative identifying how it is believed management should act towards stakeholders, whilst other stakeholder research is positive, seeking to explain and predict how management ...