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https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1342/preface-reprico.pdf
6th Workshop on Requirements Prioritization and
Communication (RePriCo’15)
Georg Herzwurm1, Wolfram Pietsch2
1 Department for Business Administration and Information Systems, esp. Business Software,
University of Stuttgart, Keplerstr. 17, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany
herzwurm@wius.bwi.uni-stuttgart.de
2 Business Management, International Sales and Service Management
Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Eupener Str. 70, 52066 Aachen, Germany
pietsch@fh-aachen.de
1 Conception and workshop content
Welcome to the 6th International Workshop on Requirements Prioritization and
Communication (RePriCo’15). The workshop serves as a platform for the presenta-
tion and discussion of new and innovative approaches to prioritization and communi-
cation issues in requirements engineering. RePriCo’15 takes place on March 23,
2015, in Essen, Germany, co-located with the 21st International Working Conference
on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ2015).
It is generally accepted that every software development project has to fulfill (at
least some) customer needs to be successful. But unless you have unlimited resources
like time and budget you have to decide which customer needs to fulfill (first) and
which not (or later). This is when requirements prioritization methods appear on the
scene and help to rank the requirements. But focusing the future development is not
only about applying prioritization techniques. Above all it is a communication process
between all relevant stakeholders. Basically, poor communication is responsible for
the gaps between the real needs of the customers, the perception of these needs by the
Requirements Engineer and the transformation of these perceptions into detailed re-
quirement specifications. Thus, prioritization and communication are strongly inter-
twined activities lying in the heart of any requirements engineering process.
RePriCo’15 aims at bringing together the more formal disciplines of decision sup-
port using evaluation methods with the more informal domains of negotiation and
collaboration. We want to raise the communities’ awareness to the important linkage
of communication and prioritization activities in Requirements Engineering. We think
that especially these activities hold a great potential of mutual enrichment as well as
of contributing to new innovative research actions.
We are glad about holding RePriCo’15 for the sixth time. After co-location with
the 22nd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE14) in Karls-
krona, Sweden last year we now return to our former and proven location at REFSQ
in Essen. The participants from research and industrial practice always appreciated
the fruitful discussions in an open-minded and pleasant atmosphere. Since 2010 we
had all in all 24 papers published within the RePriCo workshop series.
Copyright © 2015 by the authors. Copying permitted for private and academic purposes.
This volume is published and copyrighted by its editors.
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This year we have two full research papers and one short experience report pre-
sented within RePriCo’15. The submissions comprise findings from various fields:
Kai Petersen and Nauman Bin Ali investigate the requirements selection phase, i.e.
the decision between relevant and irrelevant requirements using selection procedures
from systematic literature reviews. Thorsten Merten, Bastian Mager, Paul Hübner,
Thomas Quirchmayr, Barbara Paech, and Simone Bürsner describe communication
processes in distributed software development with focus on the usage of issue track-
ing systems in four Open-Source Projects. Pierre Erasmus and Maya Daneva report
on their experience with the effort estimation driven by quality requirements in six
ERP projects.
We are convinced that the workshop will be rewarding like in previous years and
findings in these proceedings encourage researches as well as software developers,
requirements engineers, or consultants to absorb new ideas and carry them out into
their daily work and research projects.
Our special thanks go to all program committee members, speakers and partici-
pants for their contributions to the workshop. Additionally, we would like to thank
Raimundas Matulevicius and Thorsten Weyer as the REFSQ2015 workshop chairs.
Last but not least we thank Sixten Schockert and Annika Lenz for their effort in or-
ganizing RePriCo’15. We are confident in hosting RePriCo in 2016 once more and
are looking forward to welcoming many participants again.
The workshop website for the RePriCo series including links to the previous Re-
PriCo workshops can be found here: http://www.bwi.uni-stuttgart.de/reprico.
2 Organization
Program Chairs
Prof. Dr. Georg Herzwurm, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Pietsch, Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Program committee
Dr. Elizabeth Bjarnason, Lund University, Sweden
Dipl.-Math. Peter Brandenburg, Vodafone D2 GmbH, Germany
Dr. sci. Math. Thomas Fehlmann, Euro Project Office AG, Switzerland
Dr. Andreas Helferich, highQ Computerlösungen GmbH, Germany
Dr. Privat-Doz. Andrea Herrmann, Herrmann & Ehrlich, Germany
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Refflinghaus, University of Kassel, Germany
Dipl.-Wirt.-Inf. Sixten Schockert, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Prof. Dr. Mareike Schoop, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Prof. Dr. Klaus Schmid, University Hildesheim, Germany
Dipl.-Ing. Gerd Streckfuß, iqm Institut für Qualitätsmanagement, Germany
Prof. Dr. Yoshimichi Watanabe, University of Yamanashi, Japan
Organizing committee
Annika Lenz, M. Sc., University of Stuttgart, Germany
Dipl.-Wirt.-Inf. Sixten Schockert, University of Stuttgart, Germany
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