Professional skills emphasis

Develop skills for understanding and validating requirements for customers during software development by

acquiring requirements from potential customers using analytical (a.k.a. standard interviewing and modeling, SE- and MIS-influenced) techniques, and contextual (a.k.a. field-based HCI-influenced) techniques.

Customer interviewing.

Functional specification writing.

Contextual inquiry, modeling and design methods.

writing and reviewing requirements documents for a real application. For example:

NanoPlanner: A hypertext application for personal planning that falls midway between to-do lists and project management. NanoProject will run as a Thinklink application. (Thinklink is a hypertext platform being developed in the Real-World Lab. In some respects, it resembles Storyspace.)

PhotoNoter. An application that synchronizes between a hand-held, pen-based device and an office workstation. PhotoNoter is intended for professional photographers to take notes on location while taking photographs and in the darkroom when printing, and to archive (and modify) this information in the office.

NeoMeeter. A fictitious meeting scheduler based on MS Outlook, Lotus Organizer, etc. but with yet-to-be-determined killer enhancements. (Meeting scheduling is a popular micro-world used by RE research groups for comparing methods and languages. Except that it isn't so "micro" when you start thinking about it carefully.)

using ScenIC, a requirements-determination method based on current research at Georgia Tech and elsewhere.

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