Requirements elicitation technique selection: A theory-based contingency model Book Chapter

Aguirre-Urreta, MI, Marakas, GM. (2008). Requirements elicitation technique selection: A theory-based contingency model . 79-95. 10.4018/978-1-60566-172-8.ch005

cited authors

  • Aguirre-Urreta, MI; Marakas, GM

authors

abstract

  • Requirements elicitation has been recognized as a critical stage in system development projects, yecurrent models prescribing particular elicitation techniques are still limited in their development anapplication. This research reviews efforts aimed at addressing this issue, and synthesizes a commostructure consisting of project contingencies, elicitation techniques, logic of fit, and a success construcarguing for the need to more comprehensively study and organize each. As a first step in this researchmodels drawn from organizational literature are used to categorize project contingencies into dimensiondealing with their impact on the uncertainty and equivocality of the overall development project. © 2009, IGI Global.

publication date

  • December 1, 2008

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

start page

  • 79

end page

  • 95