Farbey, B.;
Finkelstein, A.;
(2001)
Software acquisition: a business strategy analysis.
In:
Proceedings of Requirements Engineering (RE 2001).
(pp. pp. 76-83).
IEEE Computer Society Press
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Abstract
The paper argues that there are new insights to be gained from a strategic analysis of requirements engineering. The paper is motivated by a simple question: what does it take to be a world class software acquirer? The question has relevance for requirements engineers because for many organisations market pressures mean that software is commonly acquired rather than developed from scratch. The paper builds on the work of C. H. Fine (1998) who suggests that product, process and supply chain should be designed together, i.e., 3D concurrent engineering. Using a number of reference theories, it proposes a systematic way of carrying out 3D concurrent engineering. The paper concludes that the critical activity in supply chain design is the design of the distribution of skills and the nature of contracts
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Software acquisition: a business strategy analysis |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/ISRE.2001.948546 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISRE.2001.948546 |
| Language: | English |
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| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/743 |
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