Requirements management has been discussed for at least fifteen years. As a discipline and as a practice, it has become more and more complex. In software projects new requirements are continuously issued and the objective of the requirement management is to elicit, manage and prioritize requirements. In the present study, a specific requirement management process is simulated. The stochastic p...

Background of the Workshop While Requirements Engineering (RE) is concerned with eliciting and managing requirements related to a particular (software) system, Business Process Management (BPM) deals with modeling and managing organizational processes and business objectives. Information technology is an enabler of business change [1] and business processes are often a starting point of softwar...

Objective Today competitive condition and quick changes adds to the importance of the need to analyze the companies’ performance in order to reach to higher positions as compared to the opponents’ performance. The present study mainly aims to investigate the role of business strategic tendency in organizational performance considering the intervening role of knowledge management. The researche...

This paper analyses student construction of case studies, using dialogue and role plays, to stimulate and consolidate understand of organization communication research , theory and methodology. Students undertaking a course as part of a Masters program in communication management need to absorb a range of organizational research perspectives and organizational communication theories. Making the...

For organizations it is important to translate the strategy and goals of the organization in tangible targets for the employees. Often, this leads to many Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for the employees. However, the link between their personal KPI’s and the goals of the organization is not always recognised. Therefore, based on previous research into performance management and on theories o...

During the past six decades, the Toyota Motor Company established a ‘lean’ production and management system (the Toyota Way), which has become an iconic template for a high performing and learning organization. The massive recall crisis of 2009/2010 distorted Toyota’s image of a role model for a lean organization heavily. This case study analyzes retrospectively how the carmaker deviated from t...

tasks (such as elicitation, validation, negotiation, specification, and documentation) have emerged and continuously been improved based on industrial feedback. Since the early 1990s, RE has increasingly been recognized as a discipline of its own. In 1993, the first IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering (RE) took place. This biannual meeting mainly provided a forum for exchan...