Critical success factors for the improvement of requirements engineering process

The current software process improvement (SPI) standards have no specific section referring to requirements engineering (RE) process and they broadly treat it as a single activity in the overall development process. Research shows that in order to produce quality software greater attention must be given to the Improvement of RE process. In order to improve the RE process we have extended the concept of critical success factors (CSFs). We have conducted 22 CSF interview with 11 Australian companies.' Our result show that factors that are generally considered. critical for RE process improvement Include: experienced staff, having clear scope up front reviews, stakeholders involvement and using a combination of text and visual models to represent requirements. Our findings also show that there are more similarities than differences on CSFs across practitioner groups. It shows that RE practitioners are aware of what is imperative for the improvement of RE process.